Mine's a 2008 Dell PowerEdge running Debian 11 (patched to the limit!) with some ancient accounting software the client refuses to migrate. Dual Xeon E5420, 16GB DDR2. Insane value back in the day, now it runs circles around nothing except my electricity bill! Still, it boots.
What's your ancient hardware horror story?
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2003 IBM xSeries. Still running. Client pays me monthly to keep it alive. Pentium 4 Xeon. 2GB RAM. runs some inventory database. Migration cost unclear they say. Every year I warn them. Every year they renew...
The ticket said... "server making loud noise, please fix." It was a 2006 Supermicro, fan bearing shot. Client had it in a closet with no AC. I quoted them migration to anything modern. They replied "just oil the fan." That machine is still at Hostinger somewhere, generating abuse reports for port scanning because the AV definitions expired in 2014.
2008? My oldest is a 2019 box with a 2080 Ti running inference for some legacy LLM. Ngl the vram math doesn't work for modern stuff, 11GB is a joke now. but someone still pays for the colo so I keep it warm. @thu_miller migration cost unclear is the universal constant of this industry
