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From: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Radiation from the Mac screens?
Keywords: radiation, protection
Message-ID: <2775@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 19:00:09 GMT
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Reply-To: vogelei@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd Vogelei)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro NM
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In article <29836@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU| thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Thom Gillespie) writes:
|Don't mean to disturb anyone but I was wondering if anyone has measured any
|radiation coming from a Mac screen?
|
|Are there any screen sheilds for Mac screens?
|
|I'm concerned about this because I have a Mac and a couple of kids, not because
|I think there is more or less radiation from a Mac screen than an IBM.
|
|Thanks.
|
|--Thom Gillespie

I would think there is definitely more radiation from a mac screen since
tyhe display creates characters by *not* exciting pixels and there is much more
white space that must be excited than black space that is not.  The opposite
is true for IBM type stuff and so more area is simply not getting bombarded
by electrons than is.  This is why it would be nice to reverse the screen.
Right now I use a black desktop and fairly dark coloring everywhere to 
minimize radiation.  It looks neon and I like it even if it doesn't help
;-)

Todd
vogelei@nmtsun