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by bigger_cheese 3556 days ago
There are some old servers at my work.

The oldest box I've personally seen runs Windows 3.1 it is a specialized measurement instrument (Microwave radar) with a hardware card that runs in an ISA slot.

There are also a fair number of RS/6000 Unix boxes which are getting pretty long in the teeth.

For spare parts I've heard sometimes engineers buy things like Scsi hard disks off of ebay.