[ale] To: old timers that have a gmail account

[Sean]

Green may be a bright color to the human eye, but those early computer
monitors with green text on a black screen caused a lot of eye strain in
normal office enviornments.

The overhead flourescent lights threw a greenish hue over everything.
Our eyes strained to read the green text through the green haze.

I used to work as a commercial photographer and trying to filter for
"cool white" flourscent bulbs was a bitch as the spectrum is discontinuous.
Color filters that did a half way decent job were very expensive.

Sean


On Friday 21 November 2008 09:14:09 pm Pete Hardie wrote:
> 2008/11/21 Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com>:
> >>> :=I still use green on black.  It was chosen for a reason!
> >
> > The reason was... that yellowish green was the original phospher
> > color. Not many choices. the White stuff was reserved for TV sets.. It
> > was more expensive.
>
> The green is also the color that the human eye is most responsive to,
> so it gets the brightest effect for lowest power.