Re: Blue Apple Monitor ///?

[David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, 23 March 2013 08:28:55 UTC-7, Michael Black  wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, mrbrad wrote:
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> > On 3/23/2013 7:10 AM, Paul Hagstrom wrote:
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> >> On 2013-03-21 18:47:51 +0000, David Schmenk said:
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> >>> On Thursday, 21 March 2013 10:53:00 UTC-7, D Finnigan  wrote:
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> >>>> Jesse wrote:
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> >>>>> I was browsing eBay and came accross this Blue Apple Monitor /// for
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> >>>>> sale? Do you think its been painted or did they actually make some of
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> >>>>> those?
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> >>>> An after-the-fact customization, I daresay.
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> >>> And a horrifying shade of blue, at that.
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> >> What's even worse about that is that it's not your everyday Monitor ///
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> >> -- it's one of the much less common black & white ones (not the usual
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> >> A3M0039 green-screen).  I've been keeping my eye out for one of those,
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> >> but getting this one pretty much requires sacrificing a A3M0039 for its
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> >> case.
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> > i know back in the day you could get a replacement tube/screen for the //e 
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> > tilt monitor...in amber.....not sure what the part number was on how to do 
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> > that ..but i saw a couple of those..cheaper then replacing the monitor back 
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> > in the day....was kinda un-nerving to look at thou imho
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> And there was all the debate over which color screen was the best.  I 
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> think there were arguments in favor of each single one.  I know there was 
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> an ad in Byte where they sold the same monitor but provided the option of 
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> b/w, amber or green.  I'm sure that odd monitor that I got with something 
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> but never used was amber, so I actually over the course of 20 years had a 
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> b/w, a green phosphor (an Apple monitor) and an amber phosphor monitor.
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> What a quaint notion looking back.  Everyone knows a color monitor is best 
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> for you now.
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>    Michael

To this day, the first thing I do on a new computer is set the terminal window's color to green on black.  I'm just not comfortable until I go old skool, I guess.

Dave...