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I just had to share this :)

I saw that and yes, I liked it too, nothing gay about liking pink, exactly the opposite-- that which straight men love so much is pink. The liking of pink as a color is downright primal for guys.
 
Yes, I do agree pink has it's place.
At least someone appears to have gotten an ebay bargain if it does indeed work, and I noticed the cable was tucked away in the disk storage.
That's the kind of system I'd paint my favorite color, well because it was already painted over. :)
 
MikeS said:
Ooohh! I LOVE it!!! (No, I'm not gay ;-) )
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I am, and I think it's the ugliest Commodore I've ever seen.

The Atari XE Game System makes a much better fashion statement with its multicolor pastel buttons:

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After careful consideration, I think I know what happened to that SX-64. Someone was about to run it a Retr0brite bath, but mismeasured the amount of Oxy Action from a tablespoon to a bucket full. You know Vanish' motto: "trust pink, forget stains". :-D
 
So any comments on the story the seller had? I recall glancing at it for some reason before it was posted here (maybe it didn't sell last time or I was *that* bored that it came up, or maybe I was trolling for prototypes).. either way I recall seeing some regular colors inside the tray area, etc where it would have been repainted I guess. Did Mary Kay actually do anything like that? I'm not sure what type of display they would be doing with an sx-64 but we've seen painted systems before (PET, etc) that were colored to match another companies products.
 
carlsson said:
After careful consideration, I think I know what happened to that SX-64. Someone was about to run it a Retr0brite bath, but mismeasured the amount of Oxy Action from a tablespoon to a bucket full. You know Vanish' motto: "trust pink, forget stains". :-D
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Nice try, but the SX-64 is painted metallic gray with black plastic trim, so I don't think it is even possible for it to "yellow".
 
I think that pink SX-64 and the Atari XE would both have looked appropriate on the set of Miami Vice.
 
The "Computer Analysis by Liza" on the front panel makes me think of paint, not makeup. I'm guessing maybe it was used with an early computerized color matching system, where you would hold up an optical wand to an object of the desired color, and then it'd detect the color and calculate the paint tinting and mixing formula to best match that color.

Obviously with only 16 colors, the SX-64 would not be able to show the exact color on-screen, but maybe the main idea was its portability, to take it to a client's home or business and do the color matching on-site.

I found this blurb explaining how it would work -- although in this case it looks like they used DEC, not Commodore:

Benjamin Moore said:
With the rise of computer technology in the everyday affairs of the 1980s, Benjamin Moore once again adapted to the times, introducing computerized color analysis systems to help its dealers match precise pigments to customers' needs. Previously, dealers had depended on the company's proprietary Moor-O-Matic color matching system, using charts, gradation sheets, and a good measure of eye expertise to match up to 1,600 colors to particular projects. The new computerized system, introduced in the early 1980s, analyzed color specimens to provide a formula indicating the base and the precise types and amounts of colorants to match the sample. The system could match virtually any color, with the exception of certain intense or fluorescent colors beyond the paint pigment spectrum. The computerized system was developed over a seven-year period by Benjamin Moore and Digital Equipment Corp. and consisted of a spectrophotometer (color analyzer) and a minicomputer loaded with color-matching software fine-tuned to Moore's paint products.
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In the late 70s, everything was either beige or grey. A few manufacturers tried some alternate colors. We did a trial run of some orange (think IBM 1960's orange/red) and some blue (again, think IBM). Everyone hated them and we went back to beige (I think the vendor's name for the color was "string") and dark brown.

Now it seems that we're in a black and silver ugly mode, at least in desktops. I'd still like to see a nice wood cabinet in teak, quilted maple inlaid with purple heart or zebra wood. You know, a cabinet that I'd want to keep after I threw away the innards.
 
This is funny. Guess what I just (well ok it was back in July 2012 or something) saw again? Ok yeah posted in a thread it's not hard to guess. Felicia Day seems to have this Commodore now! You can see it in her flog video here from ComicCon 2012. I was looking at it (as closely as I can via youtube) and it seems to have that blue text that says by Liso or whatever. So is Matt a member here? Did we ever figure out the story on this thing? I wonder if he got it from the auction or if it's passed through a few folks? Her first computer from what I gathered was an Amiga 500 so she should be able to enjoy the system quite well if it works.
 
It's definitely Mary Kay pink. Curiously, the inside case is blue, so this thing was just painted over. There's certainly been software for Mary Kay "agents" for at least the last couple of decades.

Perhaps there's an MK historian/archivist that could comment on this.
 
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