I know about it because my friend (son of the ceo) provided the electronics for the gate and he showed me all the software in 1999 because we were pitching a re

I know about it because my friend (son of the ceo) provided the electronics for the gate and he showed me all the software in 1999 because we were pitching a rewrite in ‘web tech’ (my go to was Perl in those times). The gate software wrote to the parallel port via the win32 api to open and close the gate after the day/night watch entered the numberplate and name into the sheet.