Also I heard part of the reason is that those systems are trivially maintainable...

TeMPOraL on Jan 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year run...

Also I heard part of the reason is that those systems are trivially maintainable on-site; if something breaks, you take out a soldering iron and a box of spare capacitors, and go fix it.