Computer paint jobs (was Re: SOL feeding frenzy?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Dec 1998

...
 Y'know, many times I've thought of painting
computers, but never to
"fake" a classic, merely to make a computer I liked look good.  For
instance, I never liked the dingy (and getting dingier every year)
off-white color of the TRS-80 Model 16 and most later Tandy
equipment.  I always thought a Model 4, a 6000HD or a Tandy 2000
would benefit greatly with a trip to the local Earl Scheib outlet
for some nice metalflake or pearlescent coating.  No chrome.
-- 
I have a Compaq laptop that I had repainted because it was all covered from
some sort of soot or something.  It's not black, with silver accents.  I had
another computer that someone actually DID have chrome plating put on it (I
don't know how).  It was a Tandy 1110HD laptop.  It looked pretty neat,
after a black keyboard was put into it.  Unfortunately, it was dropped, and
the screen shattered (I was letting someone borrow it).  I got it back,
didn't worry about it much, because I never really used it that often.  I
eventually ended up selling it for $30 at a flea market, as-was because I
found out it wasn't really worth it to get a new screen for it.  Now, if it
was an 1800, I would have bought a new screen for it...
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