Floppy drive faceplates came in all shapes and colours 😉
As you can see on the photo below - even the same brand floppy drive could have white-ish, gray or even black faceplate. Grey-ish floppy drives were designed for use in cases with grey accents or which were just grey (like Commodore PC-10 - but then again, IIRC PC-10 had white floppy drives mounted at the factory). Back then system builders didn't really cared much if the shade was slightly or even totally off.
5,25" floppies were still a common thing in 1995 - drivers were frequently shipped on 1,2MB 5,25" floppies and they were added to books as well (being thin they fitted behind the cover - better than 3,5" floppies. After 1995 publishers switched to CD-ROMs).
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A book published in 1995:
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