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Article: New D.C. Computer `Gathering Dust' Amid Islands Study
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- February 16, 1989
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The D.C. personnel office is at least six months late in
implementing a computerized system for hiring and tracking city
workers, primarily because the agency's two computer programmers were
sidetracked to work on a joint project with the Virgin Islands,
according to sources and documents.
A government source said yesterday the expensive hardware
acquired for the automated personnel system, including six computer
terminals, has not been hooked up and is "gathering dust" at the
Reeves Municipal Center. City officials had no comment on the new
system.
Alexander E. Yi-Wu Chi, one of the programmers assigned to the
computerization project, testified last week before a D.C. Council
committee ...