Stingy Unix System (Score 1)

In a former life, I used to work for a sweatshop that called itself a PR firm. In the mid-90s, I was an administrative assistant who was eager to get into the IT industry. The penny-pinching management saw this as a way to get rid of the consultant they used to manage their unix system that ran their contact management database. They called this system their "mainframe," with the utmost sincerity. When I finally got my opportunity to help out with the system administration, image my surprise that they were running 30 dumb text terminals off of a 486 50Mhz, with 50 Mb RAM. And they wondered why it was sluggish from time to time...