On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:08:22 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a recent note, Mark Zelden said: > >> >> >That's just sad. And, they probably have email clients running on the >> >very same desktop displaying large amounts of text using a relatively >> >tiny font. >> >> Funny... everytime I show someone my 62 x 142 screen they say "how can >> you see that - it's so small" and I have to point out the same thing about >> their email client. Of course I used to get the same response when I >> would ask why they were using mod 2 and not a mod 5. I guess it just >> seems foreign because they are not used to looking at the 3270 with >> the smaller fonts. >> >I've had similar reactions, at various times, not only to full-page >displays, but to: > >o Dark figures on a white ground. > As an experiment... I tried this. I changed my background on my vista emulator to white just like all my email, browser windows etc. but still used extended colors for the foreground (except changing white to black). Wow... what a shock to the system - although not as much as it would be for someone who has never used the ISPF WSA GUI. :-) It just proves to me that at least most of the objections to the small font in general are all just perception. Moving back and forth from my emulator to email or even this post via the web, the font sizes are no smaller on "the mainframe" than here. I've been running this way since yesterday afternoon and my mind is already starting to be trained to where it doesn't bother me and I'm starting to recognize patterns like I'm used to seeing and realize that black text is "highlighted". If someone walked over to my desk and saw me working, chances are they would have no idea I'm working on the mainframe now with such a "foreign" display. BTW, Vista is really nice for this because you can adjust any of the colors to whatever combinations of red / green / blue you want. For example, I adjusted the green, turquoise and yellow to be a lot darker than they are for my normal black background. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - GITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
