• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    How to tell whether you are working in a school tech lab or an industry tech lab:

    Are all the specialized machines 15 to 40 years old?

    Do the specialized machines have to be wheeled out from storage every time you want to use them?

    If either answer is yes, you know you are in a school’s tech/medical lab.

    • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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      This is hilarious. Bonus points if the enclosures for the specialized machines are painted a bright, garish colour for some inexplicable reason.

    • BreadOven@lemmy.world
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      What about still running on windows '98 with (obviously) no Internet or network capabilities?

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        The SEM+EDS machine in one of my school’s materials labs ran 98 and there was exactly one thumb drive on campus that was allowed to be used if you wanted to pull data. The lab coordinator had to pull the output file to his computer and email them, but made it sound like the biggest inconvenience in the world if you, ya know, wanted your data.

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          Haha. Sounds like a classic coordinator (I’ve done the same). But yeah we had this old HPLC that was running on 98. No one knew the password, so I asked if they tried “password” and it worked.

  • Mercuri@lemmy.world
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    In case anyone is curious, the image is from the DreamWorks movie Over the Hedge. It’s pretty good and I would recommend.