To answer some of the questions/comments in the linked article:
This server is (was) in the data center of a large financial company backed by a central UPS system. It's in a major metro area with reliable power. I can recall two power outages of about an hour each, and some quick brown-outs. The facility can sail through this no problem. (It is within a block of a hospital, and this may be contribute to the priority of the power.) When I began work here in 2004, this system was completely orphaned. It was originally used as a file server for local administrative stuff. AFAIK, it has never had internet connectivity. IPX is the only protocol bound to the NICs.
The only thing it's been connected to since 2004 has been my personal computer (laptop).
The first two screenshots are directly from the server. The shutdown broadcast is from the DOS Netware Client32 running under DOSemu. Nothing has been falsified or mocked-up.
I have the system in my garage. Pics are forthcoming. I got home too late last night to play with it, and I'm back at work now.