This is: an old supercomputer.
Regarded by its operators as a pain to use, this pile of circuits, relays, switches, lights and buttons has solved more pressing problems than any person one might name. While the majority of its early questions and findings are classified, the later ones are not. It has passed through many hands. Kenny Jennings used it to find the one true way of chess. Neumon Chihoje used it to find the structural weak point in the building (which nothing was done about). Greater than the number of problems it solved were the number of modern conveniences that can be directly attributed to just how obnoxiously cumbersome it was to use. The keyboard was 10 metres from the screen, the speaker (directly above the keyboard) could not be turned down below eleven, the printer was 8 metres up, and the reset button was buried deep inside and only accessible via a tiny door on the top. This is why it earned its infamous nickname - Hank.
Connections:
Finder of the weakness of: the building.