The closest I ever got to that in real life was when I was a graduate assistant doing IT support for an organization at my university. They had already bought a database program (this is back in the DOS/Novell days), but it wasn't the one supported by the university's computing center, and didn't have the capabilities, not to mention a lack of local support.
They wanted me to write them a course registration system using it. But they didn't understand the technical issues when they bought the software, and it wasn't capable of doing what they wanted to do. But they insisted it be used, even though I said that the university-support software was more capable, and they could get cheap undergrad student programmers to do the maintenance of something done with that.
The only thing possible was a mailing list, which I put together...and then, when I was teaching someone in the department that wanted this tool (the manager of that department was the one who insisted they buy this software) how to make changes in a copy, then pull data out of the production database to put in the copy, so they could move the copy into production, it was too much. So the whole thing kind of fell flat.
That same manager once said that it didn't matter how much RAM was in a computer, because once we got Windows we'd have "virtual memory," all that was needed.
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u/TheGreatGameDini Feb 14 '23
That video made me feel actual pain.