I used to love when the word processing system would crash and the IT guy (singular in those days) would come around and advise us it would be a while before the Wang was back up. (I’m old enough to recall when IBM Selectrics were waaaay cool).
We'd have to toggle in about 14 instructions from the front panel before the computer could read from the paper-tape reader and load BASIC.
<sigh>Those were the days.