[BuckeyeTexan]

If you liked that story, sometime I’ll tell you about implementing version control software at the same company. They were using multiple machines with multiple copies of the code as backups and development sandboxes and using the unix date and time stamp for version control. And recompiling code in production.

[RogerFGay]

LOL! I worked for a large company that hired a consulting company to do development of a new billing system. The company was so large that they had many different divisions with custom billing needs; and there were 17 orders within the company. The consulting company was run by a close personal friend of an executive in the development division.

All the billing systems basically worked the same way and even had input / output into the corporations other systems. But instead of writing one billing system that could be customized, the wrote 17 billing systems and for a while, had 17 maintenance contracts - each serviced by a large group.