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• ralakus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We still had a networked DOS 3.1 server running at my last job for the intercom system in the building when I was IT that ended up blowing up in a power surge we had (it was wired into a direct 12v power rail that for some reason had no surge protection). Of course they did the obvious thing to do and spent $4k to get the exact same DOS 3.1 box second hand to replace it with

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  • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the intercom? That’s just perfect! Not for some impossible to replace multi million dollar industrial equipment, or complex medical devices, nooo… for the fkn intercom.

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