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> On 26 Jan 01 at 16:18, Day Brown wrote:
>
> > Back in the mid-80's IBM came out with amber instead of green mono
> > monitors. The original green seemed to match that of oscilloscopes,
Green monocrome CRTs has been used because allow an higher resolution.
Human eyes are more sensible to green light rather than other colors and
this allows green CRTs, in order to produce a defined light, to use a
smaller electron beam.
> > so perhaps that was deliberate, to offer the cache of a science lab.
> > But with some fanfare, they announced that studies had shown that
> > the amber, actually a shade of yellow, was right in the middle of
> > the visual spectrum, and on a black background, produced text which
> > was read faster with less eyestrain.
> >
> I use an 12" amber monitor for all my internet work: PMail for mail,
> YARN for Usenet, Lynx for http and Minuet for FTP.
>
> It is an exellent color to work with. Much better than a monocrome
> VGA. No flicker at all.
>
> You can works for hours without eyestrain.
> I even used it with Win 3.1, and worked quite well.
>
> I think than in several countries in Europe, amber was mandatory for
> monocrome monitors.
>
>
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