It was at the time of the BBS, the 486th Comps and the first Pentiums... a large state. on one of the computers in a server
BBS station for customer communication, file updating, etc.

BBS was on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, standing in the corner quietly, doing her business, and there were no questions about her.

5 years passed. No time BBS was turned off, and generally about this computer to forget began - care and without it was enough, because BBS at that time has already gone out of fashion. The cleaner stored empty boxes nearby, it was lost there in dust, but it was still connected... In the server room more than 50 comps - they forgot about it.

And here, with another change of power in the organization, took new admins. Those young enthusiasts, while putting order, found that the BBS telephone line was still working and still waiting for calls! But they could not find in the server computer that serves it! Finally, among the mountains of empty bottles and spare parts, this unit was excavated, the monitor connected - and the whole department of the officel:

There was such an operating system OS / 2, in the people called "half" - competitors to the then Windows...
So BBS was served on it... After all the technical advances of the late 90s, the picture presented to the young administrators, plunged them into a real shock...
The OS/2 operating system said:
1) it works on 10% of the remaining free space (90% bad block).
2) listed services that no longer work, but if you insert the disk, it will be able to restore them
3) that for normal work she has Nothing, and she created a backup of the most important information, and asks to insert at least a discet to throw it there.

Everyone who understood what I was talking about was surprised for a few days. But that is not all. What to do with this computer - no one has ever invented. You will not sell it and take it out of the country. Business is unrealistic.
Server large - found him an honorable place, as a monument on the top shelf, the telephone line was released, but the computer was not turned off. They dropped it only 1.5 years later when they saw the last OS/2 message: "shutting down...". It was like a Terminator drowning in the heated lava of time.