01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101100 — ILLEGAL
He didn't have disc 4. No one had disc 4. It had been lost in a flood in 2014.
Then it happened.
He wasn't installing this for nostalgia. He was installing it because the entire payroll system of a major hospital network was built on an Access 2007 database with so many VBA macros that converting it would cost half a million dollars and three months. The CFO had refused. So here Arthur was, trying to force a seventeen-year-old software suite onto a machine that hated it.