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In <2828@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Jahnke@brahms.biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:

>Now if they would just do away with black and
>white machines my life would again be simple.

Your not going to get my black and white tube until you pry it from my
cold, dead fingers. :-)

But seriously, I am a programmer, and as such I spend my entire day
looking at text on my tube.  Black and white monitors display much
sharper text than color monitors.  After spending many hours each day
looking at text on both b&w and color monitors, I find that my eyes 
are much less tired with b&w.

I know somebody is going to say that color monitors are just as sharp,
so I will disagree with you in advance.  First of all the phosphor
coating on a b&w monitor is a continuous coating so all of the little
white dots bleed together into a smooth even region.  On color monitors
the phosphor coating is a buch of descrete spots, of three different
colors.  Each little "white" dot is actually composed of three tiny
blobs of phosphor, one red, one green, one blue.  When you consider 
that a period (.) in your average 10 or 12 point font is just one
pixel, then it is pretty clear to me that the separate phosphors are
easily discernable from normal viewing distances.  On a tv this is
not as much of a problem since you view it from multiple feet away,
but my eyes are about 24 inches from my monitor and from that distance
the separate phosphors are visible.

Someday when I have a spare $1000 or so I intend to add a color
monitor to my Mac II so I can play Tetris in color, but with the new
notebook Macs and my car catching on fire, that may not happen for a
while.

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