How about...
In the early 2000's I heard of an expensive project (OFA/Oracle Express MDDB (OLAP) back-end on HP-UX) that was being put on hold and archived with the servers being repurposed.
The person responsible (not me!!) zipped up the application project code and associated databases, only for it to get FTP'd to the archive location as in ASCII mode (no idea why auto mode didn't assist here - maybe it wasn't available on the version used or was accidentally chosen).
This was eventually discovered and a desperate email was sent out asking whether any project team members happened to have personal archives of any of the development.....
No amount of WordPad/edlin/vi etc. would fix that one
Biting the hand that feeds IT
