Date   : Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:11:39 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Risc PC (Was 'Minitel in France')

--On 25 July 2011 20:18:36 -0500 Jules Richardson 
<jules.richardson99@...> wrote:

> It's not running SSA software under the covers, is it? :-)
> "screen-scraping" of the AS/400 terminals which were normally used to
> access their suite of apps used to be commonplace during the 90s; porting
> the actual code to something else was either too expensive, too
> complicated, or too risky - or some combination of the three.

*shudder* Using Reflection at Barclays to screen-scrape for their pension 
system, probably explains a lot of the events of the past couple of years ;)