Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:13 -0400, Warp wrote:
> 
>> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> http://www.bash.org/?741630
>>   I have heard or rumors of really, really old mainframes or other such
>> servers which have an uptime of something like 30 years and nobody dares
>> to turn them off because they might not boot up anymore, and there
>> aren't any people who would still have the knowledge to fix them. I
>> don't know if these rumors have any veracity, though.
> 
> There is a story that's been around about a NetWare server that was in a 
> wiring closet that got completely closed up - no more door.  They didn't 
> even realize it was there, just chugging along.  I think the uptime was 
> something like 8 years, which for a PC server isn't bad....
> 
> Jim

Never ruin a good story

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6505527

With the truth

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200105/ai_n20451515/

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