"Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I have a god-awful old 'gas-type' Compaq monitor (it has a better > name, but I forget at the moment)
I believe that's "gas plasma", a very unusual looking display if ever there was one! > with the huge, clunky on-off switch > on the front, that still work about the same as it did when it was > new. When you flick the switch, nothing happens for a while, then, > gradually, the light comes up... an eerie orange/red light for the > letters, against a black background. It was never intended for > graphics, I suspect, but when I plug it into newer boxes, to see if > they work, and they boot to Windows, it is really something to see... > Windows in Orange and black.<g> Perfect for Haloween, eh? I recall that if you stared at one on a low light setting, you could still see the characters quite a while later. Now my memory is getting fuzzy: Was this the first "thin screen" technology, or was LCD pixel-addressable out by then. I know the fixed-character matrix displays were around long before of course. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
