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I'd love to read more about these stories. Do you blog?

• tyingq 8y ago
  I should, but no. It was a company that sold software to hospitals that would integrate software/servers from different departments via a protocol called HL7. Hospitals were not generally on the internet in the early 90's. So, we would do a week on site installing an AIX box and the software, do a few integrations, etc. Before we left, we'd install a 56k modem. UUCP was handy because you could push files and run remote commands on a batch schedule without a lot of scripting. We did have some clients that had more complicated setups where we would have to resort to SLIP (serial line IP) and more traditional scripts/rsh/etc. All terribly insecure, with plain text passwords in files...or worse, ".rhosts" files.
  • stevekemp 8y ago
    Same here UUCP setup to trigger syncing of nightly billing runs on SCO(!) Unixware servers. All the code was written as a combination of Microfocus COBOL and hairy shell-scripts. I recall we had a lot of random SSH-tunnels being held open via keep-alive-pings, and SLIP was definitely something I had to use.