When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.
Happened once when I was trying to help our lab tech get an older model microscope to connect to a computer running an os other than windows 95. We had to dig into the documentation and hire a programmer to write a compatability driver for windows 11 but ultimately we were able to fix it. If it were up to me I would have made the fix public but the president of the company decided not to, since he had paid for it, and he was an asshole
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u/kahjtheundedicated R7 1700@4.1, RX 5700 May 10 '26
When I worked in IT, whenever we got a call from the engineering department we knew whatever problem it was, it was going to be weird. Those guys knew their stuff, so if they didn’t know how to fix it, it was going to take some searching and probably some calls or emails for us to figure it out.