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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"DO NOT EVER TURN THIS SERVER OFF - CALL RON" is very good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Documentation - the worst part of programming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's the job for the technical writers, not the programmer haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We fired those after Y2K. And now we suffer.

[–] Num10ck 16 points 1 week ago

theres a large corporation that found a computer running behind drywall a couole years ago, had been untouched for a decade. they unplugged it and it broke their entire ERP. ( had been running servoy)

[–] raynethackery 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder which manufacturer it is?

[–] socialmedia 5 points 1 week ago

I think its dell. Not much to go on, but Texas, global manufacturing and 20yrs seem like good clues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I was sure it was Cpq, especially after the Tandem thing. But HP bought them AFTER Cpq got tandem, and it could be them. But HP would never have that kind of badging on a system.

No concrete clue.