This guy’s server is older than most of our staff

Jan30

by Sindy Cator on January 30, 2017 at 6:05 pm

It’s always nice when something from the 1990’s makes a comeback. But it’s even nicer when it didn’t leave in the first place. In 1993, Phil Hogan booted up a new Stratus Technologies server. The machine was to be used at his place of work, a steel products maker — Great Lakes Works EGL — located in Dearborn, Michigan. The expensive, fault-tolerant server was designed to be used in a variety of uptime-dependent contexts, including in industrial applications, as well as payment processing. The system itself runs Stratus’s proprietery operating system, which was last updated in the early 2000’s, and most…