Xref: utzoo comp.sys.laptops:1051 rec.aviation:27326 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mstar!mstar.morningstar.com!bob From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,rec.aviation Subject: display quality and illumination Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 20:07:30 GMT References: <1163@s5.Morgan.COM> <4701@infmx.UUCP> <474@roo.UUCP> <25083@bellcore.bellcore.com> <59@towernet.UUCP> <4885@infmx.UUCP> <31589@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Sender: usenet@MorningStar.COM (USENET Administrator) Reply-To: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) Followup-To: comp.sys.laptops Organization: Morning Star Technologies Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: v118hj3d@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu's message of 26 Jul 90 21:57:26 GMT In article <31589@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v118hj3d@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony M Petro) writes: [reviewing a laptop] ...the display is tolerable as long as you've some kind of light source upwards of a flashlight. as i don't compute in the dark, i'm satisfied. Curiously enough, I never thought I would either. Then, just this past Saturday evening, I found myself in a bar in southeastern Wisconsin typing on some smallish Toshiba thingy. The choice was between getting the glare from the piano player's spotlight to glance off the screen just right, or allowing the pleasant and helpful woman to my right to hold the table candle in just the right place. Alas, "just the right place" turned out to be an inch or two above the keyboard, so I wouldn't have been able to type. So I used the spotlight glare as constructively as possible. When I buy a laptop/portable, I now know one more item (that I wouldn't have considered before) for my list of selection criteria: occasional usability in dimly lit places. To stave off the flood of mail from those whose curiosity just won't quit... The rec.aviation community held a dinner at the Granary in Oshkosh during the (38th?) annual convention and fly-in of the Experimental Aviation Association, a traditional Mecca for general aviation pilots and nifty-airplane enthusiasts. A laptop was passed around the tables, on which the group collectively composed an article to be posted later to the newsgroup. Sorry, I've forgotten her name, which is probably safer because my wife stayed in Columbus :-)