A small industrial automation shop, 40 total, 5 software people. The "IT department" was some kid who hadn't worked IT before. Spent most of his time learning

A small industrial automation shop, 40 total, 5 software people. The "IT department" was some kid who hadn't worked IT before. Spent most of his time learning how to manage exchange by messing around with our live locally hosted exchange server. Their controls were written in C. The development process was you checked a computer out of the warehouse, installed Windows, then some janky realtime OS addon, visual studio, and MySQL. You wrote the control software on the only computer it would ever run on. To keep it on the up and up, they literally bought a copy of VS for every system they sold. They even paid for MySQL licenses (long before Sun or Oracle was involved). The version control was a home brew system that you would upload zip files to. It would timestamp them and put them on the only hard drive in the company that was backed up. The backups where a couple of cheap portable hard drives. Once a week the IT guy would swap which one was plugged in and take the other one home for offsite backups.