just a thing i would raise regarding the tech. not sure if it was mentioned. just keep in mind i could be mixing up servers and not sure who raised win NT.
win nt is really old tech. from memory it ended support way way back in the early 2000’s (replaced by windows server). I dont get why that would be deployed as an email server, there is a lot of far easier and modern (think simple) solutions than that. im guessing this was the famous hillary email server (i realise this could be 2008 timeframe)?
also one of the Q pics shows a mac (well actually the apple logo). win nt never ran on macs (correct me if i am wrong) and i could be correlating 2 things that are totally unrelated. you could run win nt virtually as in create a windows virtual environment in the apple box and deploy it but why would you do that if you have an apple ‘server’ (well at least a box capable of deploying as a server). why not just buy a intel based big pc and avoid the whole mess of apple virtual machines to windows? also you could have an apple environment and server deployed really quickly and easily. why buy an apple box only to make it a really old MS environment? this doesnt make a lot of sense to me.
so there is a hole in the logic there somewhere IMHO. also this is a genuine question, not trolling or trying to stir up issues. this just seems off. of course i could me mixing up servers as there is 4 separate ones. just thought i would ask.
The Mac server was replaced because some of the dummies (you really have to be dumb to not be able to handle a Mac) couldn’t make it work with their Blackberries and other windoze stuff. As for what happened to it...I’ve always fantasized about shooting a tower with a shotgun...pretty! So, it’s replacement was not hinky, but its disposition was.
Yeah it is old... good question... i am still using an old dual chip, quad core workstation from 2001. They may have been using old technology hardware requiring old software to help them avoid been tracked. New processors have serial numbers stored that new software reads. NT was hard for me to give up, was first and last really stable platform I ever used. Mine was made for XP and works under 7 but buggy... I cant leave auto updates on I burn a system image before updating.