DEC actually tried something like that in the late 70's, they had an option for some kind of designer pattern painted on small racks going into office environments. I think it only lasted a few months, but I do remember getting the brochures from DEC (company was an OEM from DEC at the time). Response was underwhelming. Personally, if it isn't beige or blue I don't consider it a "real" computer. When DEC went to the black racks and purple lettering (hmm, early 70s?) that was too radical for me, I was glad to see a return to the traditional beige rack. DEC did have a nice desk with a builtin short rack, it was sold with PDP-8s used for small business office applications. It looked like a regular desk, but the left side was actually a 19" wide rack. It held a BA-11 and a dual 8" floppy box. For our customers that was more popular than the "designer" panels. Jack Peacock -----Original Message----- From: Tom Owad [mailto:tomowad@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:19 AM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Re: Painting Macs (was: fake NeXT) might a