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Doug Miller

In article , wrote:

BUT....... I'm wondering if green could legally be used as a hot wire
50 years ago?

No.

Just because green is not code as a hot wire NOW, does
not mean it was always against the code back in the old days.

Well, it was. AFAIK, the NEC has always mandated green for ground.

I have
seen every color imaginable used for hot leads. Black, Yellow, Orange,
Red, Purple, Brown, Light blue, Navy blue, Pink, and others.

And all of those meet Code. "Every color imaginable" is permitted to be used
for ungrounded (hot) conductors, except:
a) white
b) gray
c) green
d) green with yellow stripe
The first two are reserved for grounded (neutral) conductors, and the last two
for grounding conductors. Anything else is OK for hot wires.