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From: tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Want -> REAL <- Screen Saver
Summary: REAL Sceen savers
Message-ID: <875@adimail.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:40:10 GMT
References: <11248@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <3027@shodha.enet.dec.com>
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> In article <11248@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, lingerke@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger) writes:
> >All I am looking for is a screen saver (or a Pyro module) that TOTALLY blacks
> >out the screen.
> 

Isn't this dangerous? We use screen savers so that we save the screen from being
burnt out when a image is displayed in the same position for a long time. But
if you make the screen black, all those electrons are back there at the gun,
just yearning to be free, and probably burning out the X or Y deflection
amplifiers. Yowch. On the same subject, why doesn't Apple just burn out the
top of the screen when they ship. That way they wouldn't have to black out the
menu bar in InitMenus.
 
I have all sorts of good ideas like this. 





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