Re: History

[Nathanael Hasbrouck <natbrouck@webryders.net>]

On Wednesday 23 March 2005 2034, somebody named Matthew Exon inscribed this 
message:
> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hmm, no-one seems to know which university it was or which years it was.
>   Sounds like a candidate for snopes.com to me...

http://www.google.com/search?&q=%22server+54%22

Supposedly was a Novell Netware server at the University of North Carolina.  
But then there's this article from Sun 
(http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-05/sunflash.20010521.3.html).  
Snopes doesn't seem to have anything about it.

NRH
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