Seriously. A few years ago (2010ish) I was roped into helping out with a microprobe array that would have cost about $150k to replace, whose controller software would only run on Windows 95... not OSR2, meaning that USB wouldn't even work (we used ZIP disks to move sequence files on and off of it). The fellow in charge of the thing would grab systems being surplussed from elsewhere in the department that might run Win95 and clone to their drives... when I left he had 4-5 spares in a closet for the day the current controller died.
EDIT: And we did attempt to virtualize it, but at least at the time were unable to do so successfully (timing issues, I think).
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Seriously. A few years ago (2010ish) I was roped into helping out with a microprobe array that would have cost about $150k to replace, whose controller software would only run on Windows 95... not OSR2, meaning that USB wouldn't even work (we used ZIP disks to move sequence files on and off of it). The fellow in charge of the thing would grab systems being surplussed from elsewhere in the department that might run Win95 and clone to their drives... when I left he had 4-5 spares in a closet for the day the current controller died.
EDIT: And we did attempt to virtualize it, but at least at the time were unable to do so successfully (timing issues, I think).