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smr <me@shawnritchie.com> wrote:

> I'm having flashbacks to helping customers get Miva Merchant working on 
> their shitty websites back then. What a cluster fuck that software was.

If you ask me, it's just starting to be "ok".

We had that one merchant processor (Retreiver, I think) where even in 2010
they were still using this archaic "solution" for small businesses. This
required an XP box running their software, a "compatable" modem similar to
the one CL was using.

This was they type where after each entry required it to "phone home", even
if it was 10 cards you were running, each one required a call out instead of
running it in a batch.

I think the reason for the goofy "compatable" modem was because it called
into some archaic main frame, one time while trying to figure out why it
dropping the calls on the connect I spotted one of those AT commands and
after a bit of checking, it was trying to put the modem in some 7E2 mode, 7
bits, even parity with 2 stop bits.

What used to drive me nuts with this setup was we had 2 machines, one at
Clybourn and another at the house. After you did all your transactions,
there was another program to run to "close out" or sync the one you were on.

If you didn't, trying to run the other machine wouldn't work, the
transaction would be turned down.

When I cancelled the service I asked them if they were ever going into the
21st century and just do it online via a web site and the guy actually
laughed saying that would never be secure and they had no plans to do so.

By that time I was already using paypal for everything and was just keeping
them as a backup. I guess they are still around but must of been bought out
or taken over, they used to be in Texas somewhere and now it seems they are
up here in South Holland.

Oh well, glad those days are over.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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