News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever. Parent comment

Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by cptnbob on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @03:35AM (#10157883)
One of our clients still has a DOS box connected to a 14.4k modem that we have to drag EDI interchanges off. You wouldn't believe how much it cost to get a modem and POTS line installed in our DC so we could talk to it. There's a windows service written in .net that talks to it via a serial port and POSTs it to a REST endpoint.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by cnvogel on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:12AM (#10158917)
Of course you could put a small internet connected embedded box to your clients place... (maybe even a commercial terminal server, if you trust the security of it) and directly emulate the whole modem+POTS line.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by cptnbob on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @11:57AM (#10160100)
They paid for our modem setup so meh ;-)
[ Parent | on HN ]