That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Teague" who told us he once worked for a local council in the UK.

"Blagging freebies from kit suppliers was an everyday occurrence," he told The Register. And one day he blagged a shiny new ISDN router.

"After fiddling and playing with various configurations, I consigned it to the back of my desk, buried in the pile of IT junk that technicians all over the planet create."

We have a name for that pile: That Box Full Of Old Tech ...