NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica's Peter Bright reports on a Netware 3.12 server that has been decommissioned after over 16 years of continuous operation. The plug was pulled when noise from the server's hard drives become intolerable. From the article: 'It's September 23, 1996. It's a Monday. The Macarena is pumping out of the office radio, mid-way through its 14 week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, doing little to improve the usual Monday gloom...Sixteen and a half years later, INTEL's hard disks—a pair of full height 5.25 inch 800 MB Quantum SCSI devices—are making some disconcerting noises from their bearings, and you're tired of the complaints. It's time to turn off the old warhorse.'"

Comments

Was it discovered in the wall??

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_server_discovered_after/

Re:16 years and they did not run of space on it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Just to piss of pompous, holier-than-thou assholes like yourself. Mission accomplished!

Re:Netware 3

[GovCheese]

On the other side of an office door, I heard the worst noise I've ever heard from spinning drives and in my panic, didn't even see the "do not disturb" sign. Turns out it wasn't spinning drives I was hearing. The lactating woman on the other side of the door milking herself with a noisy pump nearly threw the infernal machine at me. Some things are not meant to be seen.