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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
Oh, the first real job I had in Hawaii was with a consulting service that ran their financial accounting on a very old Prime minicomputer. When they went to wipe its array of disks (spread across a wall of cabinets), they set off a wave of disk failure messages. I guess the hardware had been on the edge of failure for years, as disk controllers silently correct for errors until forced to wipe disk sectors they'd left alone for years.
@dancingtreefrog We had someone set up a marketing material workflow using an old mac as some kind of batch server. They left and nobody knew about it for years. Until one day it stopped working.
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Isn't it fun when documenting things is something marked as "todo" but never done? My first tech writing job was to document a heavily-custonized Financial Accounting system so they could replace it (see Prime above).
I spent the last seven months (before I retired) completing *and documenting* all my business/systems analyst projects, and everything for managing the corporate ECM.
Great feeling: it's completed, they have everything they need. The past is past, now for my future!