I was working at a company which shall remain nameless and our voice mail server crashed. It was running on OS2 (only 2 years ago) and we had a backup of the database (Sybase SQL Anywhere) but we couldn't get it to restore. So I asked the head user guy, "When do you think this was installed and was it ever upgraded?" He thought it was 1998 or 1999 and it had never been upgraded. I was able to find old media for SQLAnywhere 3 or 4 (I think it was Watcom then). and got it to restore. We were currently on version 9!

What amazed the user though, was I was able to break into the database w/o a password. Seems that no one ever disabled the original admin account......

We got a new server configured and up in three days, but were not able to upgrade, because we still had to run on OS2. I don't know why, it's not like this company didn't have any money, but apparently if we couldn't bill it to a client, we couldn't buy it. (the "new" server was an O L D desktop machine). I was glad that there was a packrat in the organization who had the old media, although he had no idea that it was still in use.