Hello Bob, Sunday, September 28, 2003, 10:08:07 AM, you wrote:
BG> I believe that's "gas plasma", a very unusual looking display if BG> ever there was one! Exactly! Thanks. BG> Perfect for Haloween, eh? Damn! I never thought of that! This gives me an idea... I can sit the monitor in my front window facing outwards at the street (first floor, so it will be quite visible to passers-by), plug it in as Aux, on one of my 386 laptops with Windows and a graphics card, and put an image on-screen of a sinister Jack-O-Lantern. No matter what colour the actual image, it will come out Orange on black, due to the monitor's limitations. BG> I recall that if you stared at one on a low light setting, you BG> could still see the characters quite a while later. BG> Now my memory is getting fuzzy: Was this the first "thin screen" BG> technology, or was LCD pixel-addressable out by then. I know the BG> fixed-character matrix displays were around long before of course. I'm not sure... the monitor I described here was a full sized CRT (or whatever), not a thin screen. However, I also have a gas plasma GRiD 1520 laptop, 286, retired military. Someone told me that the units with the gas plasma were for use in the field (most 1520s have a 'normal', screen with reversible capability (white on black or black on white). I was also told that the gas plasma units are real battery hogs, that the screens require more power than the usual screens. I can't confirm this, as I always run the 1520s with AC adapter. Once a year I go to a convention that has a high concentration of computer geeks. This year, I am considering bringing one of these GRiD MetalMonsters with me instead of my usual laptop, just to see if it attracts any notice, if I plug it in, in one of the hospitality rooms. Problem is... the weight... definitely not a thin-line box.<g> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . 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
