Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!pasteur!cinna!c252-aj From: c252-aj@cinna.uucp (Trevor I. Blumenau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Software controlled screen brightness on Mac Classic <-Need info Summary: Potential problem Message-ID: <29348@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 30 Oct 90 00:48:52 GMT References: <10195@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: blumenau@cory.berkeley.edu (Trevor I. Blumenau) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 In article <10195@milton.u.washington.edu> busey@blake.u.washington.edu (Thomas Busey) writes: >A recent spec sheet indicated that the Mac Classic's screen brightness >is software controlled via the Control Panel. Does anyone have more >information about this, especially 1) how many different levels are >provided (just 8 like the sound volume or hopefully 256) and 2) can this >be done with software other than the control panel (like from Pascal). Ooh, sounds interesting! They (the almighties at Apple) probably thought of this, but what happens to the poor sole who turns his brightness all the way down, and consequently cannot see what he's doing to turn it up again? Trevor Blumenau blumenau@cory.berkeley.edu or c252-aj@cordelia.berkeley.edu