One of the last contracts I worked, they provided such awful hardware that the company and employees ended up BYOD. Not enough memory for a modern IDE to start up levels of awful.

As the project ramped down they ended up having to buy an iMac off of us. Someone stopped using it and before the case even got cold I had installed a CI build agent on it to run Karma tests. Which ended up being invaluable but also never managed to get replaced with a real piece of hardware. So they just dragged that thing around as the project went into maintenance.