I bought one this year. Been using it a week, hope it helps later on!

I can’t remember specifically, I think it might have just been that the ghost image on the floppy was confirmed to work, and all the desktops were allowed to boot from floppy already and not necessarily via USB.

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.

This used to be IT in the early 2000s

Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

Well, let’s see…my work laptop experience (so far).

• Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
• HP: Worked there for 6 months
• Apple: Worked there for 6 months
• HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
• Apple: Worked there for a year
• Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years–

Wasn’t there some controversy about this that it wasn’t entirely open-source?