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@sullybiker Interesting. About 20 years ago, a large private school system I used to work for finally got around to demolishing the interior of an old building. In the process, they found a Novell Netware server, still running, that much earlier remodeling had walled up inside a storage closet.
Sounds to me like old Netware rules the reliability roost!
@dancingtreefrog That poor server! At a place I worked they had some print server that had been up for around a decade that was down to the final working disk, and they were scared to ever reboot it.
@sullybiker
It was tough. We all knew it was working but no one around remembered where it was physically located until the building contractors found it. The joys of life in schools, where a mission-critical server might be under a teacher's desk.
Same employer also had a first-generation HP Laserjet printer hooked up to their mainframe accounting system. It spent ages printing financial reports and checks - hundreds of pages each day.
Old stuff was just built better, I guess.