That does strike me as odd back when I was in my second year of work (no degree) - I came in one day and my boss told me ok we have brought a bleeding edge piece of tech that cost 3x my salary.

"Go hook it up to that PDP get it working and go an talk for Brian and work out with him how to use this to digitise the 3d droplet cloud his experiment is producing.

It didn't even come with a cable just a 20 sheet photocopied technical manual.