Subj : Commodore Computers
To   : Nightfox
From : Ogg
Date : Wed May 04 2022 08:34:00

Hello Nightfox!

** On Monday 02.05.22 - 18:56, Nightfox wrote to Dr. What:

 Og>>> Beige was probably the choice to obfuscate dust.

 DW>> I never thought of that, but you might be on to something.

 N> If that's the case (no pun intended), I'd have to wonder
 N> why the whole computer industry decided to switch to making
 N> black PC cases and devices, since black tends to show dust
 N> more than beige. [...]

Beige is also more neutral and can "match" into many different  
environments without looking too stand-outtish.  Who really  
knows what the initial drive for beige/light colour was.  
Anyway.. the cool side-benefit of beige is that it hides dust  
really nice - especially on the horizontal surfaces.

Suddenly switching to a different colour was probably more to  
stand out from the crowd of clones.  Early on it was probably  
really important to look like the competition - later, not so  
much.  Something different was "cool" again.

 N> [...] But then, maybe that was part of the point..  Being
 N> able to see the dust better would help with wanting to
 N> clean the dust off and out of your computer.

Nah.. I doubt that manufactures cared about that. They would  
WANT the machines to break down so that they would be replaced  
more often.


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