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Editing with Color Monitor
By Robbie Rhodes

Jody wrote:

> In fact, it is Robbie's first machine which is capable of displaying
> a Web page in color.

It's not that I dislike color -- I dislike color monitors !

I like my 14-inch monochrome "portrait" monitor for editing: it's bright,
it's legible across the room, and it's not tiring when I'm sitting two feet
away.  And it displays *73 lines* of 9-point monospace text very clearly !
Color monitors with this clarity are very expensive.

With High Definition TV (HDTV) coming soon, the cost of very-high-quality
color monitors for computers is sure to decrease.  Someday maybe I'll have
a color "tube" that is as pleasant to view as this old black & white screen
!  (I do use the SVGA 15-inch color monitor with the Web Browser, but the
clarity is very inferior.)

Robbie Rhodes

 [ Editor's Note:
 [
 [ For editing text and doing simple graphics, the 19" Monochrome
 [ monitor on my old Sun workstation was without  question my
 [ favorite monitor before it caught fire (seriously).  Without a
 [ shadow mask or aperture grille its possible to get terrific focus
 [ and high contrast.  However now that there's so much material
 [ for viewing in color, its mandatory to have a color monitor in the
 [ arsenal of tools.  I trust there's a better color monitor in
 [ your future  ;-)
 [
 [ Jody


(Message sent Fri 2 May 1997, 16:11:58 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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