The death of the "Terminator" Bashny.Net

This was in the days of BBS, 482nd computers and the first Pentiums ...
large state. organization, on one of the computers in the server BBS-station communications with customers, updating files, and so on. n.

BBS is on round the clock, 7 days a week, stood quietly in the corner, doing their job, and the issues it was not.

So it took five years. Never BBS is not turned off, and generally forget about this computer is started - and without worries enough, t. To. BBS had already gone out of fashion. Cleaner beside the empty box to store, he's lost in the dust, but it was still connected to the server ... In more than 50 computers - forget about it.

And when the next change of power in the organization, took the new administrators. These young enthusiasts at restoring order found that the telephone line BBS is still running and is still waiting for a call! But they could not find in the server computer, which it serves! Finally, among the mountains of empty bottles and parts dug up this unit, connect the monitor - and all department ofigeli:
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There was such an operating system OS / 2 is called "sex" - the then rivals Windows ...
So BBS was served exactly on it ... After all the technological advances of the late 90's, the picture appears to young admins, plunged them into a real shock ...

the operating system OS / 2, reported that
1) It works on 10% of the remaining free space (90% bad block).
2) lists the services that do not work, but if you insert the disc, it will be able to restore them
3) reported that for normal work in her nothing, and it creates a backup of the most important information, and even asked to insert a floppy disk, to throw it back ...

All who knew what it was about, surprised a few days. But that is not all. What to do with your computer - no one came up. Sell ​​it can not be sold and taken out of state. Company unreal ...
Server big - he found a place of honor, as a monument on the top shelf, the phone line freed, but did not turn off the computer. We throw it out just after 1, 5 years old, when they saw the last
Post an OS / 2: «shutting down ...». It was like the Terminator,
drowning in the hot lava of time ...



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