You're in the 21st century. Most state governments are still in the 20th. West
Virginia maybe the 19th.
On Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 08:30:10 AM EDT, Enzo D'Amato
<0000042f4b016b5a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
I wonder why the fiber cards were not set up in a redundant configuration.
Like even in a lab environment, all of my peripherals are connected across 2 or
more cards.
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Makes me wonder how old the system is...state governments are notorious for
running hardware long past its useful life. If this was ESCON, life might get
interesting.
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 6:28 AM Bill Johnson <
00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> A spokesperson from Gov. Justice’s administration says that the cause
> of the mainframe outage was a physical hardware failure and not the
> result of any outside attack. The spokesperson tells 13 News that it
> was a failure of a fiber card. Parts had to be overnighted, and
> technicians had to fly in because the system is antiquated, and only a
> few specialists understand how to fix it.
>
> Antiquated of course.
>
>
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> On Monday, July 25, 2022, 11:43 PM, Steve Horein
> <steve.hor...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Spotted on reddit:
>
> https://wchstv.com/news/local/mainframe-outage-affecting-wva-state-age
> ncies-could-take-48-72-hours-to-resolv
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