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Someone swallowed a history book... a fictional one

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james_s:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 04, 2022, 04:16:44 am ---I remember my local library had a Apple 2(?) with a plain old orange display for anyone to use to search the library database. It was great. Simple, but great. Then this Macintosh showed up with a small screen. Bloody awful.

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We had a lot of both when I was in school. I quite liked those little compact Macs, they had a nice sharp display and the hardware design was really elegant. A portion of the system RAM was used for the video display, the display being quite literally a bitmap scanned from the RAM via simple hardware. The Apple II was also very elegant, it did a lot with very simple hardware.

james_s:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 04, 2022, 04:09:31 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 04, 2022, 01:25:52 am ---This “dark mode” obsession is a fad wave.

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No it isn't. When you're older, you'll understand.  :P

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Indeed, I love dark mode on my phone, I find it much easier on the eyes. On a desktop it depends, I have some dark text editors that are visually pleasing but I can also work on a white background if there's at least something darker around it. A lot of times I find dark mode too dark and light mode too bright.

Halcyon:
I mean, marks for creativity, but this is a good example when you make assumptions about how something works or why a certain thing was done.

eti:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 04, 2022, 06:29:49 am ---I mean, marks for creativity, but this is a good example when you make assumptions about how something works or why a certain thing was done.

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Ass—umption. The old tale holds true. It takes just one article with clearly poor research to discredit an author. It smacks of laziness. There’s SO many people writing articles, so tell me why I should come back and read another? First impressions still matter.

It’s like the old web “ site under construction, please come back later“ banners - what makes you think I’m gonna come back?

tom66:
CRTs do distinctly use less power showing white text on a black background, compared to the alternative.  However, it's more likely to cause eyestrain, as others have noted, especially with earlier CRTs with lower refresh rates and poorer focus/resolution.

I suspect that the choice was down to a combination of reasons.  Power may have been one of them, though.

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