All I thought was those are definitely not windows 95. They probably did check the discs and found malware of whatever sort. I wouldn't be surprised if they're literally being used to install backdoors on legacy infrastructure systems that report back to China - crippling our infrastructure at a moments notice is a pretty strong weapon.
Or maybe it's not malicious but hey I'm just some random guy on the internet shit posting, I just like to think up spy novel stuff happening irl because it's fun.