>8 bits to a byte so my 300 baud modem could send 37.5 characters per second. That is the theoretical rate. In 1981 we had a local bulletin board for our S-100 Bus Computer Club in Silicon Valley. You could see the characters being painted across the screen and guess what word would be coming out!

In Hollywood movies they are now painting the characters on a screen at incredible 50 characters per second... and they've also added the interesting sound feedback, so you can hear that the character you saw has actually arrived.

>Boy did I love my Amber screen monitor! Easy on the eyes!

B/W were much better, once we had them. I remember one heavy customer, about an hour's drive away, where my colleague and I used to stay quite long, because their data were always in need of fixing. They had one black&white and one amber monitor. Whoever was the designated driver on the way back, was treated with the b+w, and then the poor other who got the amber had a whole hour to rest his eyes.

Greens were sort of OK, if they had a decent matte finish. I once sat for five minutes by the old CPM machine where I had my first job years before... and my eyes hurt. Just trying to imagine that I once played Tetris on that :).