Article: New D.C. Computer `Gathering Dust' Amid Islands Study

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 ...

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