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?
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)
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.
