Happened to me too. Worked for a remote 2-year college not too long ago that had all of its data on an ancient as/400 system that went down every couple of weeks for a day or two.
No backups, the tape drive was busted. No replacement parts for things like the bleeding edge 10mbps NIC.
I kept pressing that we need to replace it or migrate off of it to a cloud server, kept getting denied. "It's not in the budget" "It would cost too much".
I mean, we're talking a few hundred dollars a month for the minuscule usage we had, compared to the massive risk that if the system went down it would cause the entire college to collapse and possibly be permanently shuttered.
Finally the ball dropped and it went down. For days you could access it at the main terminal but it would not speak to the network at all.
People are starting to panic. Talks of bringing in an AS/400 repair specialist at over $100/hr are being floated.
Finally, I took a last ditch effort to fix the nic and managed to pull it off.
I let them know that I had managed to fix it and they all breathed a massive sigh, but before they could finish I let them know that this might be the last time it comes back up and that we need to back it up somewhere before that happens.
6 weeks later we had a nice shiny cloud based AS/400 and I held the funerary rites as I shut down that old lumbering beast for the last time.
Final clock, nearly 25 years of service.