Re: History

["Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:50:34 -0500
jeff <smaug9@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:42:28 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez
> <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
> > I heard a story (not sure if it's true) about a server at a
> > university that was walled in during a remodelling and was not
> > found until four or five years later when they decided they
> > needed to do something (upgrade memory, or whatever) to the
> > machine.  Supposedly, they found it be tracing the network
> > cable and then found it ran behind a wall.  Also, supposedly
> > the machine want unnoticed for so long because it never needed
> > to reboot or anything like that.
> 
> I heard the story, also, about a novell server.
> This is the only link I could find, so far:
> http://nl2.vnunet.com/comment/1161122
> 
This link likes the uptime to be seven or eight years:
http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1products_2.html

Cybe R. Wizard
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