@nixCraft One of the most fun things I ever did, was push a BASIC program, which I wrote, from a - can't remember what's it's called
There used to be these tiny computers, basically a keyboard and a 1" screen, that a reporter would use. Powered by a half-dozen AA batteries. You could write up some text, and then plug in and fire it off to the home server over telnet
Well, I used one of those to update an IBM server, whilst I was at a football match, to fix the "automatic" scorecard system