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There used to be something that worked exactly in this manner, called AeroFS -- There was a website portion that worked just like Dropbox did, and then a client you could install on your systems, and it would distribute items in a torrent-like manner between clients. It had a lot of neat features. It's a shame that it didn't end up really going anywhere (in a very crowded field at the time), because it worked great and they had an on-prem solution that worked really well.

I'm curious in regards to repairs (and perhaps this is just stupidity on my part): Were spare parts for repairs kept on-site, did they have to be ordered/shipped, or did your grandfather have a, er, service truck with parts, etc?