Time For A Monday Evening Chuckle: What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen?

Every once in a while, someone submits (and Slashdot publishes) a post like this one, wherein the submitter posits:

"I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the history of our company (which shall remain nameless), and he started reminiscing about some of the IT hacks that our company did. Like running 10BaseT down a storm water drain to connect two buildings, using a dripping tap to keep the sewerage U-bend full of water in a computer room, (huh?). And some not so strange ones like running SCSI out to 100m, and running a major financial system on a long forgotten computer in a cupboard. I know that there must be a plethora of IT hacks around. What are some you've seen?"

Some of the response stories are, I suspect you can already imagine, quite hilarious….as well as, I presume, true. Happy reading!