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Which beige box will turn me into a femboy?
Johnny Ives would have gotten rid of all those nasty bevels.
But do you have magic box where the beige happens?
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.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
What do they do?
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.
Top left is the CFX96/384, which is also a qPCR instrument.
Bottom left is the 3500 Genetic Analyzer, as someone identified. It’s used for sanger sequencing I believe. My last lab had one but I was never trained on it.
I thought it was just their T100, the CFX96s I’ve used don’t have the touchscreen but yeah the bigger “lid” does look like for the CFX.
Wow, I know some of those words.
This guy sciences.
Also username checks out.
I know nothing about this kind of lab equipment but Google says the bottom left device is a human DNA sequencer, ABI model 3500.
PCR, aka pipette, cry, repeat
Thank you, they sound really specialized!
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.
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.
Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?
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.
