Ah legacy enterprise software&#x2F;hardware, it keeps me employed and insane.<p>Where i currently work we have a system which was originally designed in &#x27;69(coding started in 75) running on an ibm iSeries. It&#x27;s old old tech and most of the system is cludged together so poorly that instead of being able to write patches we just write wrappers around the applications(micro services really) that modify the program as its running. Yeahp.<p>We have  a system written in something called &quot;Workstation Basic&quot; which was designed&#x2F;written in &#x27;79( a decade before I was born). The original author no longer works for us and can only be contacted certain times of the year because he&#x27;s a snowbird.<p>Millions of dollars of business is done in access databases and custom made excel workbooks.<p>It&#x27;s a fun time.