And how many times has CA DMV tried to rewrite the systems with the help of
"consulting companies" and failed? I can think of at least two.
CA DMV seems to be prone to making bad implementation choices. Back
when I was working for Univac (35 years ago) on the former RCA systems,
I found that the CA DMV systems were on RCA equipment, with the
databases on the RCA RACE equipment (similar to the IBM data cells, but
not compatible). They were trying to convert the data to IBM equipment,
but the only apparent way to do so was via 6250 BPI tape, and it was
estimated it would take months to dump all the data to tape and read it
back on IBM systems. I don't know what they eventually did but
obviously they got it off the RCA equipment.
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