Re: Obsolete tech still in use
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 5:32 pm
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I've started a new contract with a bank for whom I moved their telephony to VOPI about 10 years ago and put a solution in place to get rid of fax machines as they used to have hundreds of them, especially for payment instructions. I've just been sent an inventory of analogue lines... which has hundreds of fax machines on it. FFS.Jobbo wrote: Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:59 am Banks seemed to be obsessed with faxes, but for years I've expressly excluded it in contracts as a method of service and we have taken our fax number off the website and footers now.
Could still operate a virtual fax machine if we wanted to but I don't.
A different bank also had some funky, bespoke server build running critical services on OS/2 Warp quite recently. And a Novell 3.x server. All of these things are cursed and you must never even look at them for fear they will break.