> Until one day, the dongle broke (a bump by the cleaning staff cracked it apparently). The company behind the software went bankrupt years ago, and there was n

> Until one day, the dongle broke (a bump by the cleaning staff cracked it apparently). The company behind the software went bankrupt years ago, and there was no way to either obtain a new dongle or extract the data from the software (custom db as well). I have seen similar things happen, some proprietary data analysis framework from the 90s relying on hw dongle (from a company busted years ago) used in research lab. Talk about reproducible results, when you wouldn't even be able to reproduce it yourself when it breaks, I wonder how these people think. I guess their cancer research isn't very important so...