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<blockquote data-quote="Gene2memE" data-source="post: 76828634" data-attributes="member: 341130"><p>Probably because it was a system from the early to mid 1980s and I don't think had been updated by the company since then. I suspect the number of users was so low that it was way down on the priority list for HP to issue a patch for. </p><p></p><p>The company wasn't exactly running at the cutting edge - managers were still taking those chunky tape drives home with them in the evening, because they didn't trust the servers to perform overnight backups.</p><p></p><p>The retailer got swallowed up by a supermarket chain shortly before Christmas 2000. Which was fun. When we did stocktake, we found mountains of untracked/excess inventory. Small wonder they'd been failing, there were no records or item numbers for nearly a third of our stock.</p><p></p><p>We got to the point where anything without a price/POS number got piled into the car park and sold between Christmas and New Years Eve. For whatever we thought it was worth. I bought enough wine that I still had stuff cellared a decade later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gene2memE, post: 76828634, member: 341130"] Probably because it was a system from the early to mid 1980s and I don't think had been updated by the company since then. I suspect the number of users was so low that it was way down on the priority list for HP to issue a patch for. The company wasn't exactly running at the cutting edge - managers were still taking those chunky tape drives home with them in the evening, because they didn't trust the servers to perform overnight backups. The retailer got swallowed up by a supermarket chain shortly before Christmas 2000. Which was fun. When we did stocktake, we found mountains of untracked/excess inventory. Small wonder they'd been failing, there were no records or item numbers for nearly a third of our stock. We got to the point where anything without a price/POS number got piled into the car park and sold between Christmas and New Years Eve. For whatever we thought it was worth. I bought enough wine that I still had stuff cellared a decade later. [/QUOTE]
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