RE: [PLUG] City Lawyer: We Don't Store Data on Hard Disk

[John Fiore <fiorejp@yahoo.com>]

I especially like the phrase:

"No one understands its computer system and the CAMA
process better than the BRT."

As though just because they use it they understand it.

I've used my heart every day for the last few decades.
 That must mean that I'm more qualified to talk about
it than any cardiologist.


--- Eugene Smiley <eugene@esmiley.net> wrote:
> Ed wrote:
> > The City lawyer, Mimi Choksi, spent a good deal of
> time rebutting
> > our affidavits in her legal brief.  Read how she
> went about it
> > here: 
> > 
> >
>
http://www.hallwatch.org/rtkasuits/suits/brt/briefs/choksi_response
> 
> Questions to present to Ms. Choksi:
> 
> Q: Okay, so the data resides on the mainframe. Are
> you saying that 
> the requested fields reside in random access memory
> on the mainframe,
> and if so what happens to this information if the
> mainframe should 
> "go down" or is turned off?
> 
> Q: How does the City's disaster recovery plan cover
> the loss of 
> this information? How is this information protected
> from accidental
> loss?
> 
> Q: A mainframe is not a storage medium, it's a
> computational device.
> As a computational device, it is likely to have a
> CPU, memory, and 
> storage media. What are the storage media used in
> the City's 
> mainframe?
> 
> Eugene
> 
> 
>
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