Thirty days hath...
It's 1989, and this IT pilot fish is part of a Finnish research expedition to the Antarctic on a ship that's outfitted specifically for the mission -- or at least it's supposed to be.
"It was the first real trip for the boat, and there had been numerous delays and problems," says fish. "Many non-crucial subsystems had not been tested too well, and there had been time only for the mandatory ship checks, because Antarctic summer doesn't wait.
"The boat had numerous PCs and a network, but the heart of the system was a DEC VAX minicomputer, a server archiving all data, including things like ship position. This core part of the system came from a shipyard subcontractor, as it was integrated to the ship's bridge electronics.
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