Bluecross will be using POTS modems until the end of time.
ROTFL! Hey, at least they're not using POTTS (= plain old telephone and telegraph system).
I have had customers who still use DOS(!!) programs to .....
Me too, before I and those customers parted ways.
(It's kind of like POTS interac terminals, they are still all over the
place.)
Yes, I still run into those with considerable frequency too! And they're either tying up a whole dedicated (and expensive) POTS line, or sharing a POTS voice line.
That said, I kind of like POTS modems! Ah, the good ol' days.
Yeah, they make that sound of pterodactyls while they're interchanging carriers and protocols before the real communications session.
Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
On 17 August 2016 at 04:11, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
On 2016-08-15 Colin Stanners wrote:
Do the remote sites that dial in have IP connectivity? How about putting serial to IP converters at that end of the connection and dropping the POTS?
Bluecross will be using POTS modems until the end of time. I have had customers who still use DOS(!!) programs to submit reimbursement requests to them. Best they can hope for is to whittle the numbers down and pray they disappear. (It's kind of like POTS interac terminals, they are still all over the place.)
That said, I kind of like POTS modems! Ah, the good ol' days. _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable