We still have a UUCP feed from a legacy DOS (!) financial system. Dials us up every day and pumps us data in a message body. We inherited it during a buy out.

We still have a UUCP feed from a legacy DOS (!) financial system. Dials us up every day and pumps us data in a message body. We inherited it during a buy out. It dialled into a SPARCstation 2 originally but that died with a PROM failure (after nearly 18 years of 24/7 service in 2008!). It still had SunOS 4 on it. It was replaced overnight with a hacked up .Net app that receives the message from an old Hayes modem plugged into a USB<>serial adapter from Maplin (bought that evening), parses it terribly naively, translates it to a SOAP message and calls a WCF service on our back end rather than is picked up from a mail spool forwarding. Think of this story every time you whinge about a REST API problem :)