>there was a reason green screens and especially amber/yellow displays were popular long after color displays came out...
yes, and the reason was the fuzzy-blurryness of color display technology at that time, and the fact that those in the industry were already used to monochrome displays and had workflows and settings adapted to monochrome. Once color display quality became high enough, monochrome demand completely evaporated.
I'm not saying that there is nothing nice about a monochrome display, and displaying light on black (my terminal and emacs windows are still black background, with a distinct fondness for green; I too am an old-timer), but still...
>>yes, and the reason was the fuzzy-blurryness of color display technology at that time, and the fact that those in the industry were already used to monochrome displays and had workflows and settings adapted to monochrome. Once color display quality became high enough, monochrome demand completely evaporated.
Eh? no one had color back then.. You had monochrome - you just got to pick which color you wanted: white, yellow, amber or green.
And I never saw monochrome demand 'evaporate' - I saw lots of new people come into computing in the 90s that wanted color for games, photo editing, whatever.
edit: what I mean is, there weren't enough of us 'text only' people to make it worth while for manufacturers with the armies of new users coming in with games, gui's and all that
yes, and the reason was the fuzzy-blurryness of color display technology at that time, and the fact that those in the industry were already used to monochrome displays and had workflows and settings adapted to monochrome. Once color display quality became high enough, monochrome demand completely evaporated.
I'm not saying that there is nothing nice about a monochrome display, and displaying light on black (my terminal and emacs windows are still black background, with a distinct fondness for green; I too am an old-timer), but still...