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>>Dragan;
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>>I had an Amber screen. Easy on the eyes or was that just marketing hype? Amber on black - what class!
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>Though they were easier than the green-on-black, they were still bad. I remember one evening in 1991 when we were returning home after cleaning up customer's data for hours:
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>- Here's the keys, you drive.
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>- Oh, no, you drive. You were sitting by the black'n'white monitor and I sat by the amber.
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>- OK, sorry, you win. I'll drive.
Dragan;
Scopes used by the United States Air Force for radar displays used Amber displays. We called the operators "Scope Dopes", because they were glued to the scope for an eight hour shift. I see news reports today that display Amber scopes - some things do not change - for better or worse!
Tom
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