You find a mystery server under a desk. It has been sitting there, unpatched, unattended, but running — for the past twenty years. Nobody has the slightest idea of why it's there or what it's doing.

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A true story of a mystery AS/400 server found under a desk in a data center that had been running for 20 years without anyone knowing its purpose.

True Tales of Survival: Twenty Years of (Server) Solitude