# Did anyone ever painted a computer?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-painted-a-computer/740667 "2015-12-17T06:45:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 2, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-ever-painted-a-computer/740667/22 "2016-01-02T00:52:07Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I wonder if anyone has any opinion of those pics of old IBM systems that I linked in Post #5? (snip)

They’re photographs. They aged a lot in the decades between when they were printed in promotional brochures and when they were scanned into a computer.

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