Ah yes, back when caring about hardware was a thing.

Early 90s, new top-of-line Compaq arrives, for me, project manager. We open it to install network card - token ring (yes, it sucked to be you - you could almost see the little tokens slouching round the ring).

me: jesus, just look at that heat-sink!

male programmer: yeah, they really knocked it out with that anodised blue - can i get the next one?

female tech lead: you sad, sad bastards.