the op was talking about hardware, I think. but you are spot-on on the mad scientist. we are just in the process to de-clutter all the non standard, hand made,

the op was talking about hardware, I think. but you are spot-on on the mad scientist. we are just in the process to de-clutter all the non standard, hand made, highly customized, never documented, stuff produced buba coworker that, unfortunately, passed away. btw, we also wrote a HA cluster software for sun solaris in year 2000...