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Re: SCREENS HURT EYES (Mac SE, Plus)

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From: Richard Sexton
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1988 23:14
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In article <694@mcdsun.UUCP> fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
>In article <gW3S5Xy00V4Ul4g1UM@andrew.cmu.edu> rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes:
>>
>>In article <3645@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,  
>>dyckman@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Howard L. Dyckman) writes varius stuff 
>>about screens.
>>
>>This is the third time this message has appeared on comp.sys.mac, and it's no 
>>more useful than it was last time.
>
>And it's not just the third time in two weeks; I seem to remember seeing an
>almost identical posting at least 18 to 24 months ago.  Can anyone with
>archives that go back several years check to see when this guy first noticed
>that he has an eye problem?  You would have thought he'd have given up using
>Mac's by now (note the "recently" in his posting...).
>
>-Fred

I believe it was about 8 months ago.

Also, on a related not, about 8 months ago, people were talking about
a very fine line appearing on Sony monitors about 2/3 of the way down.

I finally found mine, with a peach coloured background, with brightness
turned down quite a bit.


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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SCREENS HURT EYES (Mac SE, Plus)
Message-ID: <2634@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 88 23:14:56 GMT
References: <gW3S5Xy00V4Ul4g1UM@andrew.cmu.edu> <694@mcdsun.UUCP>
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Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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