I was involved with an techno-art outfit some years ago. We needed a file and webserver, but didn't have any money (artists never do...) We went to the scrapyar

I was involved with an techno-art outfit some years ago. We needed a file and webserver, but didn't have any money (artists never do...) We went to the scrapyard, found a motherboard, CPU, Powerunit and RAM and bought a cheap harddisk. The whole thing was screwed onto a piece of plywood, installed with freebsd and thrown into a corner. It went for around two years without maintenance or rebooting.