The physics department were my girlfriend did her Master thesis had some really big issues with "technology management". A big optical setup which was used for

The physics department were my girlfriend did her Master thesis had some really big issues with "technology management". A big optical setup which was used for measurements every week worked thanks to a yellowish 90s MS-Dos PC which was programmed by a now retired professor to automate the calibration of some lenses. The script running in this old PC had no backup, wasn't understood by any other person in the department and there was no documentation for it. Moreover, the PC and the script had no way of interacting with a network (as new lab automation equipment does) so there was no possibility to interact with the setup from other rooms, let alone from home. All this because the professor was too proud of his programming back then to even think that it was necessary to migrate to something more maintainable.