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From: tneu1@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Linnerooth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Want -> REAL <- Screen Saver
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.143107.20116@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 14:31:07 GMT
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hlsw_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (D. Hollinsworth) writes:

>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. ...

Then, tel@adimail.UUCP (Terry Monks) replies:
>So would it be preferable to have a completely WHITE screen instead of a
>completely black one?  How 'bout a module for that one?          

Now I say:
   I can't believe this.  Am I to understand that it's better for the monitor
to always be white than black?  I've seen our Mac in the Mac lab at ISU, and
it sure looks like the "burned" spots are in the menu bar where the white is.
  Maybe for the monitor as a whole, it's better to have it white, I wouldn't
know, but I think for the SCREEN, it's better to be black, because if you keep
it all white, the contrast lessens, and the images become "fuzzy".

                                           
                                              - Steve Linnerooth
Remember:  Nothing can be made foolproof        tneu1@ccvax.iastate.edu
           because fools are so ingenious!     """"""""""""""""""""""""