[GreenKeys] tty paint colors

[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

Jim Haynes wrote:

> Textured vinyl is a paint - hmm, the most familiar example I can think
> of is the IBM selectric typewriter, and of course IBM computer cabinets.

Ok, that makes sense.  I was thinking like the textured vinyl that 
Peavey uses for their mixers and similar equipment - it is literally a 
roll vinyl that has been bonded to sheet metal. It comes in huge sheets 
- and they have a machine (more than a city block long - just a few 
blocks from here) that takes the sheets in one end - and spits out 
finished chassis out the other. The machine is controlled via CNC to 
make all the necessary cuts, holes, bends folds, etc. - and since the 
vinyl is clad to the metal - no further painting, etc. is needed - (the 
machine even applies the silk screening for the various markings and 
labels).


> I remember seeing a
> blue Model 28 once, but I don't remember where. 

Maybe at RiceGuy's? He had a beauty! ('course it wasn't exactly stock, 
either).

> Probably those blue and
> red and yellow colors were made to match IBM computers; I know computers
> came in all those colors, plus white and maybe others.  The Model 29
> IDP ASR sets were for some unaccounted reason "pink", probably rose
> beige is the official name of the color.  I remember a color called
> "greige" a gray-beige.  There was a beige for Model 28s used with
> Burroughs 220 computers, which had a green and beige color scheme.

Again, that makes sense. I guess since just about everything (equipment 
wise) in the Navy is gray - we didn't see much variety.

Thanks for the insight!
-- 
randy guttery

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