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
We still have some legacy systems with floppy at the fab I work at. It’s funny to have state of the art $50-100 million equipment on one side of the room and fucking 1990s legacy shit on the other side…I think we are just scared at this point to upgrade the legacy stuff.
This used to be IT in the early 2000s
Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)
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
Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.
Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?
There definitely was. I’ve seen it.
Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?
We still have some legacy systems with floppy at the fab I work at. It’s funny to have state of the art $50-100 million equipment on one side of the room and fucking 1990s legacy shit on the other side…I think we are just scared at this point to upgrade the legacy stuff.
Nowadays it’s a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn’t have it)