I realize that the discussion about split operations have beenenough to tan the hides of every bovine used for McDonald'shamburgers for the next century, but I would like to add my "vote"to what Fred mentioned, as I'm one of those 10% or so of maleswho suffer from the inability to distinguish reds, greens, browns,and other similar "earth tones". I freely admit that my XYL has tomatch a lot of my clothing for me. In my professional career, I even encountered one poor guy whohad to use a hood over a 7-segment LED display (on the front panelof a PDP11/34) to be able to read it, even though there were no othercolors in the immediate vicinity; he had to rely solely on the relativebrightness of the display. I can, I think, differentiate a lot of colors,but my wife will tell you that it's a guess at best, and usually wrong,and the accuracy depends strongly on the color/temperature of theambient light in the room. I score the best accuracy in pure sunlight. So, yes, some chromatic ergonomic engineering would be sincerely appreciated! tnx es 73, Brandy, N1HO Fred Jensen, k6dgw, said, in part,
"...red and green are probably the worst choices since defective colorvision is way more prevalent in males than females, the vast majorityof hams are male, and inability to distinguish red and green is the mostcommon color vision defect." ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
