Server flood soon

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Thu Nov 13 07:48:18 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob O'Donnell" <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: Server flood soon


> As a techie responsible for supporting a number of small businesses, I can
> confirm this - while we have a few who run fairly recent versions of
> Windows Server on modern kit, I can count at least as many whose entire
> business still runs off machines which are almost on topic for this
> list. Certainly we've lots of NT4 Server systems out there, some even
> running on P1 boxes.

Believe it or not, I'm about to install a s/h Fujitsu-Siemens with NT4
server for
a nursing home 5 user network. For $599 we got server with dual
P3-550/512Mb and
3 x 9Gb UW SCSI with RAID, 40Gb DLT Tape Drive, redundant supplies and
network card etc.

Add obsolete NT4+SP6 (off Ebay, dirt cheap - with licenses etc - al kosher)
Result is a nice little server that will more than cope with their miniscule
demand.
Hell, it would have cost nearly as much to buy a new tape drive to shove in
a
workstation.

> Is not long ago (like few months) we upgraded a 24 user (serial screens)
> system because the MFM hard disc in the 386 based server had finally
died...

Hmmmm, Xenix? A library perhaps?

I still support some Novell 3.12 and 4.11 servers running on 486 hardware,
though
not on MFM I must admit....LOL.

Geoff in Oz
Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 07:48:18 GMT