The same thing happenned to me. We do medical billing systems. As we
were decommissioning an old coax network, people lost the drive mapping
to some document folders. As were had been told that only the three
servers in the old server room were in use, we finally had to trace the
location by cable segments off the old coax repeaters. We found the old
server under a desk in an unused office. It was a Compaq Deskpro 386
running Netware 2.15. Uptime was over 6 years. Funny, the power
supply fan was so encrusted with dust that it no longer turned. The
supply was too hot to touch, but it was still limping along. More
modern equipment would have melted down.
It turned out that the old occupant of that office had retired four
years before and he had set up the server as an unauthorized project
with a booleg copy of the NW 2.15 after the rest of the shop had
upgraded to 3.x. Then he was RIFed by early retirement. No one else
had even seen the server before or knew it existed.
Tothwolf wrote:
>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
>
>
>
--
http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html
Received on Sat May 17 2003 - 11:22:00 BST