On Sat, 17 May 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2003 philip_at_awale.qc.ca wrote:
>
> > This is an urbane legend that I believe to be true.
> >
> > Google found this :
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/18265.html
> >
> > (this probably isn't a good enough reference to guaranty authenticity,
> > though)
>
> I'm still skeptical. Think of this: what better hack than to fool some
> newspaper reporter into doing a story on an old high-tech urban legend?
>
> I'm sure there's a kernel of truth to the story, but it sounds too dumb
> to have actually happened like it's told.
I know one place I worked "lost" a Novell server for years, but it turned
up in the corner of someone's office when they finally found it. Yes, it
was running and being used. The only reason they started looking for it
was that they were decommissioning it...
-Toth
Received on Sat May 17 2003 - 10:56:01 BST