Re: Apple lle display

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Osgeld wrote:

> they offered the monochrome display cause most business had little to
> no use for color, and reading 80 column text on most color displays of
> the day is halfway tween nightmare and impossible
>
> growing up with the monitor // (a green mono screen) I still prefer
> it, even with mine hooked in to a tv caputre card running at 70p its
> ok, much better than any tv in my house, but still kind of junky if I
> had to sit down and write a 10 page report on it
It's such a different time.  I didn't have a color monitor until 1998
when I bought it with a used Mac LC for a low price, and since color
didn't add much but did slow the computer down a bit, I pretty much
always kept the color off.  I didn't really start using color until 2001, 
when I started using Linux and even from the install I had some problems
related to the lack of a color monitor.

But thirty years ago, you'd pay a premium for color monitor.  They weren't 
commonly available, though of course home computers started to cause them
to be more common.  With a monochrome monitor, you could often find 
surplus, but not much in color.  And unlike more recent years, color tv
sets didn't have video jacks in them, to make them easy to use.

It's hard to think of those times when you can no longer get a monochrome 
monitor, and you can buy LCD color monitors for under a hundred dollars.
Somewhere in between color became so standard that the price became no 
longer premium.  Or maybe it's the reverse, due to demand the prices could 
drop.

  Michael