Re: Black PC keyboards/cases --- where have we seen this before???

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

Dave Althoff Jr wrote:

> Phil Abel (ttsh35a@removethisfornospam.prodigy.net) wrote:
> : I am sitting here looking at all these fancy new Dell PCs with the black CPU
> : case, monitor, keyboard and mouse that my employer just ordered.  I thought
> : platinum was here to stay, but I guess the black look has taken over now.
> : Lest we forget, perhaps the first home PC (to the best of my recollection)
> : to go with the black case look was the Bell & Howell Apple II model 20+ yrs
> : ago!  I can't look at one of the new Dell's without thinking about a Bell &
> : Howell any more...  I guess some things do come back in style...
>
> Do you not remember that at about the same time Apple changed all its
> computers from beige to platinum (about the same time as the IIgs was
> introduced), IBM introduced the PS/2 and switched all their cases from
> grey to beige?


The PS/2 line is a white (keeping in mind the "shades" of white one can 
buy at a paint store), not a beige, certainly not the same color, or 
even close to the same color Apple used for the ][Plus, IIe, Lisa, ///, 
or the early Macs.

Roy


> --Dave Althoff, ][.
>   (Yeah, I'm still around...)