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Discussion Groups / English Usage / December 2007Still around?
My wife and I just spent a few days in Savannah, Georgia on a short holiday. I was walking by building that contained a very large financial firms's office and noticed, through the window, that several people were working on computers, and that the video terminals were those old orange screens. This picture was taken through the window (hence the odd reflection of a street lamp "in" the office): http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/orange.jpg I wasn't aware that any of these were still used. -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >I was walking by building that contained a very large financial >firms's office and noticed, through the window, that several people >were working on computers, and that the video terminals were those old >orange screens. Amber and green displays on a black background are restful. JF >>I was walking by building that contained a very large financial >>firms's office and noticed, through the window, that several people >>were working on computers, and that the video terminals were those old >>orange screens. > >Amber and green displays on a black background are restful. JF The early ones manufactured by Leftpondian outfits were mostly (all?) of the green persuasion - derived from long-standing history and experience with oscilloscopes. Then some Scandinavian country (Sweden IIRC) issued a National Standard for their country which decreed that all such office equipment be amber - based on ergonomic studies done by one of their universities. This was followed in short order by a couple of other European countries, so anybody wishing to expoert into those markets had to scramble and change their production over. This was widely held to be a dirty protectionist trick by Tandberg who held a monopoly briefly. Jitze > The early ones manufactured by Leftpondian outfits were mostly > (all?) of the green persuasion. Not all: e.g. among the first generation of suitcase-sized "portables," the Kaypro and Osborne computers had green/ black screens but the Hyperion had orange/black.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) In alt.usage.english, Don Phillipson wrote: >"Jitze" <couperus@znet.com> wrote in message >> The early ones manufactured by Leftpondian outfits were mostly >> (all?) of the green persuasion. > >Not all: e.g. among the first generation of suitcase-sized >"portables," the Kaypro and Osborne computers had green/ >black screens but the Hyperion had orange/black. I had an Osborne knock-off made by a company called, I think, Andromeda. That too was green on black. The most distinctive thing about it was that it had no facility for formatting the 5 1/4 floppies, so I had to buy pre-formatted disks at enormous expense from the manufacturer - or I would have had to buy them if the company hadn't gone bust within a month of my buying the computer, leaving me with three or four disks and no way of getting any more. They also ended up owing me a lot of money for some now-forgotten reason. My brother happened to know the liquidator, but despite that "in" I never saw a penny. All in all, not a happy episode. SignatureV >In alt.usage.english, Don Phillipson wrote: >>"Jitze" <couperus@znet.com> wrote in message [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >All in all, not a happy episode. You should write a book about that Andromeda strain. SignatureRobin Bignall (BrE) Herts, England >> The early ones manufactured by Leftpondian outfits were mostly >> (all?) of the green persuasion. > >Not all: e.g. among the first generation of suitcase-sized >"portables," the Kaypro and Osborne computers had green/ >black screens but the Hyperion had orange/black. My Osborne Executive had an amber monitor built in. SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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