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Back in time, black were ordinary, and only white/grey ones were for licensed software, thus more desirable.
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10729287 • yesterday at 12:30 PM
The same for cameras back in the 60s/70s. Silver was the norm, black was way more desirable. Funnily it's now the opposite.
As I remember, the blue ones where the most ordinary (and boring), at least for 3½-inch size. For 5¼-inch, they were mostly black, but I remember some of them in colors too (especially orange or yellow ones, they were beautiful).
E.g: https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2AA9BC4/ajaxnetphoto-2019-worthing...