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| | EDS - Electronic Data Systems (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The system was based on IBM 3090 mainframe and was intended to integrate six software modules, covering social security payments made for food stamps, child support payment enforcement, and Medicaid, which offers federal care to the poor. |
 | | During the crashes, the system could not be used for any business purpose, and the state was forced to turn away its customers. |
 | | By the contract termination date of June 1 1992, HRS claimed EDS had delivered a system based on a configuration that was "unproved, inflexible and insufficient to meet the capacity requirements, either present or future". |
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