Subj : Amber or Green (was 286s)
To   : Blue White
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 19 2024 10:20:10

  Re: Amber or Green (was 286s)
  By: Blue White to Ben Collver on Fri Apr 19 2024 08:24 am

 BW> While I was working at the college library, all of our dumb terminals were
 BW> amber.  Most all of the computers were also.  Later, I worked for a couple
 BW> of years at a company that had an AS400 and all of those terminals (dumb
 BW> and PC) were usually green.

 BW> I would have to agree that, on the PCs, the amber seemed brighter.


Green all the way for me -- amber was the color of dirty, dim ADM3a terminals in the computer lab. My computer, a hopped-up 286 clone with custom clock crystal and 287 math coprocessor powered a hercules graphics card and a greenscreen monitor.

When I think of college, I think of typing quietly on a soft, rubbery keyboard in a dark dorm room lit only by a desk lamp. Green phosphors turned down, my roommate was either fast asleep or completely failing to get it on with the girl he was friendzoned by.

I was either writing code with Turbo C or dialed into a VAX on campus.
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