IBM’s early desktop computers (e.g. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC/AT) were beige, and box-shaped, and most manufacturers of clones followed suit.[citation needed] As IBM and its imitators came to dominate the industry, these features became standards of desktop computer design.
Its all true, I was there. Its all coming back to me.
The beige. Computers were all beige.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige_box