[TriLUG] In search of the walled machine at UNC

[Thunder Bear]

On a hunch I followed a couple of other leads.

I seemed to recall that UNC was rumored to have paid Novell to help  
them find this lost server.

Sure enough, Novell makes minor reference to this on their web site:
http://www.novell.com/customers/smallbusiness/news/102001/ 
realitycheck.html

If this is a hoax, Novell is helping to perpetuate it.

The earliest reference I could find was April 9, 2001.

Sadly, I can find no reference to it within the unc.edu domain.

Thunder Bear
Tribal Shaman
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