Perhaps you're not old enough to recall, but that colour coding was indroduced with the PC97 standard[1], in 1997. While 'plague' is over the top, it was a gre

Perhaps you're not old enough to recall, but that colour coding was indroduced with the PC97 standard[1], in 1997. While 'plague' is over the top, it was a great annoyance for a decade. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_System_Design_Guide