There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it
Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.
I can’t remember specifically, I think it might have just been that the ghost image on the floppy was confirmed to work, and all the desktops were allowed to boot from floppy already and not necessarily via USB.
This used to be IT in the early 2000s
Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)
Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.
So it’s almost time for teal, orange et other fun colors, mixed with translucent plastic lab équipement?
In 5 years hardcore researchers will be modding their lab equipment and installing plexiglass glass sides. Just like I did to my PC in 1999-2000ish
Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?
There definitely was. I’ve seen it.
Nowadays it’s a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn’t have it)
I’m waiting for it come back in to style. I’ve pitched getting beige racks with this on the side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)
Honestly, I think it was so ugly it was beautiful.
There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it
Ooh, never thought of that as so ugly it’s pretty but I can kinda see it now
Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?
Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.
Why not just use a thumb drive at that point?
I can’t remember specifically, I think it might have just been that the ghost image on the floppy was confirmed to work, and all the desktops were allowed to boot from floppy already and not necessarily via USB.
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