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Back in the 1980's, around the time of Australia's Bicentennial, I was
a Computer Systems Officer Grade 1 for a certain public sector
organization. My duties involved writing a comparative evaluation of
the then popular word processing software packages Wordstar and
Wordperfect. In those days software documentation for these two
packages came in hard copy format, in ring binders. The colour
of the cover of the Wordstar documentation was dark red  and the
colour of the cover of the Wordperfect documentation was some shade of
blue.  The colours of these two folders was soon incorporated into
popular apparel fashion. I have a photograph of my late mother
wearing  in the last week of her life a shirt incoporating alternate
vertical stripes of wordstar red and wordperfect blue. 
I was retired invalidity in 1989. Such was my illness that I did not
touch a computer for nine years. In the intervening years, the web
arrived. 
In December 1997, I decided to rehabilitate myself. I had just been
discharged from hospital. I went to a nearby computer shop and brought
myself a personal computer, and went online to the internet.
Then it happened again. The grey colour of the internet explorer 
browser started to appear on peoples shirts, in vertical stripes.
I was not at the time working for a public sector organization.
A few weeks ago, I purchased a set of academic regalia
and started wearing it when I walked the streets. 
I wore the regalia for my Graduate Diploma in Computing
from the Faculty Of Information Technology, Monash University.
The regalia consisted of a trencher cap, ie mortarboard,
a black gown, and a spectrum green stole.
Now begins the saga of spectrum green. It has started
appearing on peoples attire, and on print media colouring.
For example, look at the August/September 2000  of the
Australian Computer Society's Information Age magazine.
The masthead "Information Age" is printed in spectrum green,
as is the lower background. The advertising insert for the
CMACS certification program is mostly done in spectrum green.
On page 33 of The Australian newspaper for  September 5 2000, the
first page of 
the Australian IT section, is an article "Myefone turns emails
into voice messages". The article is accompanied by a 
photograph of Mr Fortunatow, featuring a vivid colour
streak of spectrum green.
As well as being a Member  of the Australian Computer Society, the
Association for Computing Machinery, and The Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers,  I am a member of the Australasian
Political Studies Association, the organization for political
scientists, see 
http://www.une.edu.au/apsa/main.htm. As a political scientist,
this sort of colour game has me very worried.
You can look me up at
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/alumni/1981/Ajzenszmidt.Ian.html.

Mr Ian Martin Ajzenszmidt BA(Hons) Melb, GradDipComputing Monash MACS