Server on NetWare 3.12 with uptime of 16.5 years
The Volga Automobile Plant began producing the top ten, the series of tragic events in Chechnya was only continuing, and only a few weeks ago the latest operating system from Microsoft, Windows NT 4.0, was released. This was Monday, September 23, 1996, and it was only different from others that it only launched a small server on NetWare 3.12 somewhere in the US.
NetWare is a network operating system from Novell, first released in 1983. In this case, it was used for its intended purpose: the server reliably provided its disk space to clients, but the printer sharing function was mainly used. NetWare is particularly stable, and devices that run under it are almost always involved in occasional discussions and comparisons of uptime. This copy claims to be a special record of the level of " Voyager-1 " - he worked for sixteen and a half years.
The server, called INTEL, had a Pentium processor with a frequency of less than 100 MHz, two 3COM 3C509B network adapters (always connected to Ethernet), a DPT RAID controller, a pair of 5.25-inch 800-megabyte disks manufactured by Quantum Corporation (of course SCSI bus was used). For 16 years, the distance traveled by their heads probably reached the order of astronomical magnitudes, and devices began to make noise.
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The noise became more and more pronounced, and the server began to resemble a car scrubbing on the asphalt with its own silencer. There was so much dust inside the server that it was impossible to see the individual parts of the boards; the car looked like a bird's nest. Finally, due to noise complaints, the server had to be stopped.
The photos and history of this server were posted by user Axatax on the Ars Technica forum.
NetWare is a network operating system from Novell, first released in 1983. In this case, it was used for its intended purpose: the server reliably provided its disk space to clients, but the printer sharing function was mainly used. NetWare is particularly stable, and devices that run under it are almost always involved in occasional discussions and comparisons of uptime. This copy claims to be a special record of the level of " Voyager-1 " - he worked for sixteen and a half years.
The server, called INTEL, had a Pentium processor with a frequency of less than 100 MHz, two 3COM 3C509B network adapters (always connected to Ethernet), a DPT RAID controller, a pair of 5.25-inch 800-megabyte disks manufactured by Quantum Corporation (of course SCSI bus was used). For 16 years, the distance traveled by their heads probably reached the order of astronomical magnitudes, and devices began to make noise.
')
The noise became more and more pronounced, and the server began to resemble a car scrubbing on the asphalt with its own silencer. There was so much dust inside the server that it was impossible to see the individual parts of the boards; the car looked like a bird's nest. Finally, due to noise complaints, the server had to be stopped.
The photos and history of this server were posted by user Axatax on the Ars Technica forum.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/174769/
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