What happened to technology being beige/gray?

>>62113671
it turned yellow in a few years

>>62113671
turns yellow over time and plastic generally looks like shit. what's wrong with glorious space-grey aluminium?

normalfags

>>62113671
It's generally considered a pretty ugly color. No idea why stuff was grey in the first place, it's not like other colors weren't available at the time either. IBM 5150 was mostly black for example, HiFi components had been black for ages already.

>>62113671
>>62113698
>>62113701
KEK

I think he was talking about modern tech.

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>>62113737
>IBM 5150 was mostly black for example
Do you have the Dumb?

>>62113671
>power prick under monitor
enjoy squeezing in those composite and external floppy drive connectors

Perhaps the beige was just the natural color of the plastic at the time? respectively was the cheapest kind to mass produce?

if everyone buys the same beige crap for their molds, the price drops

>>62113671
People are edgy and need hardware that matches their dark souls. Also black plastic is cheaper to produce, than other colours and beige plastic degrades and becomes yellow.

>>62113818
>beige plastic degrades and becomes yellow.
No it doesn't. I have 30 year old beige that looks like new, mostly keycaps.
Only bromine infused plastic does. We have ways to produce flame resistant beige nowadays that doesn't go yellow anyways.

>>62113737
>IBM 5150 was mostly black for example
>I am 15 and I need to post

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>>62113671
bad picture, this is how the IIc is supposed to look

people have totally wrong idea about beige and why they look like that now

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>>62113907
Also this >>62113772 is a good example, it's actually painted and not plastic

>>62113928
>one of the screw covers and badge missing on the 5151
disgusting

>>62114024
Who cares about this old shit