Disappearing Servers

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat May 17 11:36:01 2003

On Sat, 17 May 2003, 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...

Sure, this is not as uncommon as one might think.

But lost behind a new wall? I doubt that anyone could be THAT stupid. I
mean, people can exhibit amazing levels of stupidity, but it would be
incredibly naive to think that someone would take the time to cut out the
holes and everything necessary to run the cable through, then close off
the wall.

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