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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Software controlled screen brightness
Message-ID: <2917@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 7 Nov 90 08:25:04 GMT
References: <10195@milton.u.washington.edu> <77800055@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <35597@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
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In article <35597@nigel.ee.udel.edu> cayz@udel.edu (James Cayz) writes:
>
>Hi All,
>
>	Has anyone thought of the consequences of _not_ being able to turn the
>brightness all the way down???  "When is this a problem?" you might ask...
>running, ie, screen savers.  That means that this very meaningful AS screen is
>visible, until I crank the darkness down.  Saves burning that "Hand & Tray"
>into my screen, since it is up _continously_ (since 1987).   If I go to a
>Classic, I'll burn my screen up real fast...
>
	I think you could easily get away with running Auto-Black, which
	I assume still runs fine on the Classic to bypass the minimal
	dimming of the Brightness CDEV. However the Classic I saw when
	I dimmed it to the Max, the intensity was so low, that burn in 
	even with running Appleshare continiously would take one heck of
	a long time..


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