where the magic happens owo
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
beige box where the magic happens
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
You’ll need a PhD to be allowed to push the “on” button though.
And then go back to the office to write grant applications for a month.
To buy the next beige box.allywilson@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 months ago
So it’s almost time for teal, orange et other fun colors, mixed with translucent plastic lab équipement?
mayo_cider@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Nowadays it’s a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn’t have it)
tempest@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m waiting for it come back in to style. I’ve pitched getting beige racks with this on the side en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
woah dude, that’s far out
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Honestly, I think it was so ugly it was beautiful.
Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
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
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?
allywilson@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
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.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But do you have magic box where the beige happens?
Chefdano3@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s at home Depot.
Hupf@feddit.org 5 months ago
*very expensive beige box
Donkter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Gun! Where we shoot the people who break the beige box where the magic happens.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which beige box will turn me into a femboy?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Leave the bottle…
fanbois@hexbear.net 5 months ago
We had a bright orange magic box that was connected to a beige windows 95 box that you were never allowed to turn off because nobody knew if it would survive a reboot and there was no software for the orange box for a more modern setup. Almost felt an like arcane ritual, typing in the command lines to get it to work.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Could honestly try a virtual machine or an emulator at that point. Would be worth a shot.
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
My workplace was still using DOS machines (386s) in 2015 to format letters. It couldn’t be emulated as the critical component was an ISA card
One of the pieces of work I worked on was diverting the data stream aimed at that letter system and translating it to go via our more modern correspondence system
can@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
No power outages?
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Probably plugged into some sort of UPS or the building has backup power.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Most of ours used to be white!
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Available in the Thermo Fisher catalog for $39,900,800.00 each.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Science was cooler when you had to use a screwdriver.
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NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Johnny Ives would have gotten rid of all those nasty bevels.
interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I fix software on these things! No one ever quite gets what I do for work, it’s nice to run across in the wild.
I feel seen lol
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What do they do?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for generic PCR, and certain enzymatic reactions. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qPCR, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a laser/detector for the dye or probe that reacts to generating more dna with each PCR cycle so you can quantify approximately how much of the target DNA you had.
Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of fluorophore signals to measure multiple analyates, usually different proteins.
Idk what bottom left is.
interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Some kinda lab work, maybe blood chem or urinalysis. I should clarify that since I’m a software person I don’t even know what they do, really, I just fix it when they stop transmitting lab test results to the database.