{"id":244,"date":"2019-05-18T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?p=244"},"modified":"2019-05-17T15:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:39:45","slug":"ibm-pc-server-310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/2019\/05\/ibm-pc-server-310\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM PC Server 310"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"245\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?attachment_id=245\" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_03-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_03-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_03-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"248\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?attachment_id=248\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_04-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_04-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_04-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This piece of hardware is from 1996. I found it in our old server room parked under a table next to a box with cables and rack equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I remembered the time when I sat in front of it, doing sysadmin stuff with Novell Netware 4.2. Oh my, this was a long time ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you do if you find such a long forgotten treasure? You want to see  if it will boot your favorite OS from back then, right? And it booted really fast into a DOS prompt: <tt>C:\\&gt;<\/tt><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <tt>ver<\/tt> command revealed a Windows 98 installation. After firing <tt>win<\/tt>, good old Windows 98 booted into the beloved GUI. I immediately felt 20 years younger \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turned out, the PC Server was in very good shape, fully functional and booting super fast. Even the CMOS battery was alive. Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"246\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?attachment_id=246\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_02-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_02-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"247\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/?attachment_id=247\" class=\"wp-image-247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tobanet.de\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pcs310_01-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Awestruck as I was I shut it down (well, I just hit power-off as in the good old days) and put it back under the table. There it is waiting for someone else cleaning up and wondering if it will boot one more time &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece of hardware is from 1996. I found it in our old server room parked under a table next to a box with cables and rack equipment. And then I remembered the time when I sat in front of it, doing sysadmin stuff with Novell Netware 4.2. Oh my, this was a long time ago! What do you do if you find such a long forgotten treasure? 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