Why were so many electronics grey/beige in the 70-90s and why

Because you need red gaymer LEDs that make your CPU processor machine(monitor) go 3 times fasters

because it was cheap

fact: they were actually white as snow when they were made, but the material they were made of blackens quite noticeably over time

Because the big depression. hence why the grey color

look it up on Encarta 2000

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>>60555250
>red
>3 times faster
nice

>>60555218
IIRC it's because the mandatory flame retardants made it difficult to make line voltage electronics with cool colors and finishes cheaply. Painting them wouldn't have gotten much more money, but would have cost them a lot more to make. Plastics have actually moved on a lot since then.

>>60555259
No, My ps1 is definitely beige

>>60555218
Probably inherited from business machine design. Grey, pink, and beige. Just look at old typewriters and filing cabinets up to the seventies.

Beige rackmounts are my favorite computer fetish.

I've never seen a fake wood tone panel computer case though.

>>60555218
fashion is cyclical. it will come back into fashion in few years.

>>60555388
literally this. That's why every electronics from that era looks like that.

>>60557346
you might need your eyes checked

>>60555218
ipod happened, white is the new beige

>>60555218
Now we're in the gay RGB era , fuck man

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>>60555259
Fact: a false claim

I got a ps1 when they first came out and it was grey.

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>>60557899
>I've never seen a fake wood tone panel computer case though.
And now you have.

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>>60559197
Clint used fake wood grain vinyl wrap.

Closest thing to a 'wood grain' computer would be an Atari 2600