I worked at an Insurance Broker ~1998 as the assistant to the CIO who was also the only network engineer. Which I guess made me the PFY. We use to deploy thos

I worked at an Insurance Broker ~1998 as the assistant to the CIO who was also the only network engineer. Which I guess made me the PFY. We use to deploy those mini tower eMachines to the staff, but we'd rip out the WinModems and replace them with a NIC. So we had a box of about 100 WinModems collecting dust in the corner. The newer machines came with 20+GB HDDs so we'd swap those out with smaller 4-8GB HDDs we had laying around. At some point a 1800 number got decommissioned but the local number and internal distribution tree were still active in the PBX. I ended up taking a decomissioned IVR and swapping out the Retorrex boards for WinModems and configuring it as dialup internet service and used a bunch of those large HDDs to host an FTP Server on it. I left sometime in 2005 but my makeshift dialup ISP was still active as late as 2008 and there was an extensive collection of DIVX movies still on the FTP server.