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Jos Vermaseren asks:
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> This leaves the question: why is the American preference for color so much
> greater than in Europe? I posed this question a long time ago, but nobody
> could come up with an explanation. Anybody has one?

I bought an Atari 520 ST when they first came out.  I wanted a good, clear
monitor, so I got a monochrome monitor, which was much better than what
IBM had to offer at the time.  I soon discovered, however, that most of the
software available in the U.S., especially the PD stuff, was not runnable on
my system.  After several years, I broke down and bought a color monitor
so that I could run some of these programs.  When I do my real computer work,
I always use the monochrome monitor.

When I joined our local Atari user group, I discovered that most of the
early members were former owners of 8-bit atari machines.  I think all of
them had color monitors and all of them loved computer games.  None of the
games worked on monochrome at that time.  I don't know if that's the reason,
but I recently heard that U.S. dealers are having a hard time finding color
monitors, so the picture in the U.S. may soon change.

     _   _        Pat Coffey    
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