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1990s - 2001
Microtest Corp, Phoenix AZ | DiskZerver (for CD-images) and FileZerver development for custom hardware. Microtest was absorbed by a competitor for its Network Test Equipment business. DiskZerver and FileZerver products cast adrift. |
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2001
NetZerver Inc, Phoenix AZ, a part of Alanco Inc, Scottsdale AZ | FileZerver product, both physical HW and development material, was acquired. |
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2003-Apr
NetZerver LLC, Phoenix AZ | Led by John Dahl |
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2004-Dec
DataPreZerver, a part of DataPreserve, Scottsdale AZ | Began re-implementation and expansion for use with wide-range of server hardware. |
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2008
NetZerver (again), Phoenix AZ | |
| 2012 | Independent development in cooperation with most-recent NetZerver in support of customers accumulated during several of the previous steps. |
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2018-June
John Dahl passes away. | Support for customers available from Afterburn Technologies in the Phoenix AZ area with plans to use name ProZerver and prozerver.com |
| 2020 | prozerver.com apparently abandoned. netzerver.com apparently abandoned. Firmware updates and limited sympathy (if not support) available from polycosmic-zervertest.zapto.org (which you may have already found if you are reading this). |
| 2022-Sept | Firmware updates also available using web-name polycosmic.net and from polycosmic.info@gmail.com |
Some of the recent development has been done under the name "Polycosmic Enterprises Unlimited".
There is no truth to the rumor that Polycosmic Enterprises Unlimited is a result of the merger between Amalgamated Unicosmos, Galaxy Partners, Planck Productions, Inter-Dimensional Development, Inflationary Whimsy, Consolidated Dark Energy, and Wormhole Coffee and Doughnuts.
There is some truth to the story that the name is used to suggest that there is something bigger, much bigger, than some guy with a computer in his dining area wanting to learn about and make use of the Free and Open Source software available for a number of technologies.
Throughout all of the steps of this history, the heavy-lifting has been done with Free Software and Open Source Software, with links to all of the licenses which allow that use.
There has also always been management and administration by web-pages, intended (sometimes successfully) to keep set-up and reliable operation simple, with "Help" text on each admin web-page to provide guidance when there are problems. During the Microtest days, the Help text was written by an actual writer, who was allowed a limited amount of light-heartedness (and which probably translated in interesting ways when that text was adapted for several different languages). During re-write of the various Help pages, it may be that none of that original Help-text remains. However, a limited amount of snarkyness has managed to survive.
After the Microtest and NetZerver era, there have been several major development projects --
Contact us at polycosmic.info /at/ gmail
or at cbertsch /at/ cox.net
All text on this website,
nonsense and otherwise,
is 100% organic generated.
One exception:
On Contact-Us webpage,
some answers to "I-am-not-a-robot" field
appear to be generated by robots.