Which color was your first computer? 💻 🎨
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Had to search because I remembered the computer quite well (TI99/4A) but not its color. (I'm somewhat colorblind and don't usually think of things in terms of their color unless I have some specific reason to.)
@Em0nM4stodon My first computer was an XT compatible that came with MS-DOS 3.2 and GEM 2.something in the late 1980s. Of course it was beige.
@Em0nM4stodon It was a gray laptop.
@Em0nM4stodon Where’s gray though? Not that I had one, but Atari ST’s were distinctively gray and not beige. 🤔
@Em0nM4stodon Yellow, but I'm lowering the average age of a person here
Beigevengers assemble... preferably in basic.
Brass, with mahogany end cheeks.
@Em0nM4stodon not this one but same model even same weirdly small monitor. The basic had computed gosubs and arrays such that I was able to write recursive code. Possibly my favorite code ever was a math expression parser that knew about complex numbers. And filling the 8k with digits of pi and e, using assembly. I couldn't view or use the digits but they were there. BCD for e at least.
@Em0nM4stodon @phlash My first computer was an Olivetti 286. It was grey.
@Em0nM4stodon Lime. (an iMac G3)
@Em0nM4stodon black but not the period you're probably thinking of... It was an early 1980s ZX81.
Second was a lovely dark grey Amstrad CPC464. Only after that started the series of beige, beige, beige, beige, black (still have) desktop PCs, black netbook, white laptop, dark blue laptop, metallic green laptop
@Em0nM4stodon Beige. And my second. And my third... I lose track somewhere, but probably about six or seven, until my first Frecycled laptop without a hard drive (at first). So that's about... '78 to '05 or so?
@Em0nM4stodon The first one I *owned* was black (a Spectrum). The first one I *used* was white (a ZX80).
@Em0nM4stodon An Atari 1040ST (FM) for which I later got the colour monitor.
@Em0nM4stodon it had a rainbow though
@Em0nM4stodon black with a rainbow, and rubber keys!
Modern PCs should have more rainbows! 🌈
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A friend built mine and it was in a wooden box.
@Em0nM4stodon platinum silver. Still have it. Still works
@Em0nM4stodon Dark brown! It was a C16, a budget version of the C64 - same breadbox case, but different colour.
@Em0nM4stodon ibm pc with twin floppies
Beige and dark (slate) grey - Sharp MZ700 series - with a faux wood finish portable TV for a monitor. **mumbles** years ago!
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It was kind of blue and stainless steel, locked away on a "raised floor."
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Which old computer is not beige? Aren't they all?
Because of the stickers, I can't remember the original colour.
@Em0nM4stodon So much beige..
(This was a household PC, rather than mine exactly - a Gateway 2000 with Windows 95. The glamour!)
I remember this monitor but I'm certain it was a tower. 1995 or 6 HP Pavillion with Windows 95. I still remember the day my Dad got it all set up and turned it on and being so excited. I had pretty much no reason to use a computer at that age but seeing some of the games and watching him connect to AOL was enough to make it a core memory.
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First one I bought was charcoal, or some other dark shade of gray. 25MHz 486 laptop.
Had had a fair few work provided beige boxes (work being IBM, mostly) before then.
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I had a silly dial up emachines which was aol. The best thing about it was the AImchat which was very polite back then and no one hacked anyone.
@Em0nM4stodon beige Packard Bell here
@Em0nM4stodon Grey as far as I remember
@Em0nM4stodon Commodore VIC-20 beige.
@Em0nM4stodon Beige for the Vic-20 which was the first computer in the house (not mine alone). Dad upgraded to the Commodore 64 not too long after.
The first mine-alone computer *could* be the Radio Shack Microcomputer Trainer kit, but if counting more general-purpose and complete systems it was the Color Computer 3 (in that case: white).
@Em0nM4stodon dark gray Powerbook 145. i loved it dearly and more than any other laptop i encountered since.
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I don't recall for sure if it was beige or black. The screen was green and black, without a doubt. Oh wait, maybe It was amber and black? Naw. Green for the first one. Amber must've have been the second screen
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I never thought of the old plasic off-white as "beige", but I suppose it does fit.
First computer that was mine or does a family computer count? I think the first computer in my house was a gateway desktop, so that off-white beige. The first computer that was mine was a hand-me-down macbook that was silver.
Is the turquoise option here for those clear blue plastic macs?
@crypticrainfall Yes I thought it might be more common than it seems to be 
I guess this is beige
@Em0nM4stodon I marked beige, but that was my first PC, maybe grey-ish. Thans I remembered my first computer was a ZX Spectrum, it was black naturely.
I'm taking this question to mean "which color was the first computer you were allowed to futz with regularly?" not "which color was the first computer that was your own?".
No idea what the board was in it, but it was a generic beige 486DX4 mini tower running OS/2 WARP 4.
@Em0nM4stodon It was a home built system back in 1978 which lived in a cardboard box.
