Ohhh I thought this would be about the ugly brown/beige boxes in the early pc era. I think this was just because IBM used that colour in theirs and everyone cop

Ohhh I thought this would be about the ugly brown/beige boxes in the early pc era. I think this was just because IBM used that colour in theirs and everyone copycatted it. The same way a lot of peripherals were using semi-transparent fruity coloured plastic in the early 2000s after Apple popularised this :P Not many computer companies really had good industrial design. Except remarkably some business-oriented companies like SGI and (to a slightly lesser extent) Sun whose stuff was awesome for the era. Too bad it was completely unaffordable.