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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield;232HMB;3-6292;;MF62)
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Subject: Re: Apps incompatible with System 7.0
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Date: 28 Jun 91 16:17:09 GMT
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In article <dnsurber.678117510@node_2204c> dsurber@nasamail.nasa.gov writes:
#>In <2828@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Jahnke@brahms.biosci.arizona.edu (Jerome Jahnke) writes:
#>
#>>Now if they would just do away with black and
#>>white machines my life would again be simple.
#>
#>Your not going to get my black and white tube until you pry it from my
#>cold, dead fingers. :-)
#>
#>But seriously, I am a programmer, and as such I spend my entire day
#>looking at text on my tube.  Black and white monitors display much
#>sharper text than color monitors.  After spending many hours each day
#>looking at text on both b&w and color monitors, I find that my eyes 
#>are much less tired with b&w.

There's another issue. I have a 12-inch B/W monitor; my boss
has the 13-inch color monitor. I've tried running PageMaker
on his monitor. I noticed lines, such as the guide lines,
were much harder to see in color. Now it could be that
Aldus just chose bad colors (I think they are very light blue
and I didn't notice an option to change these colors). I
found it was quite a bit easier to work in B/W. I'd say,
use color where you absolutely need it. But otherwise it
shouldn't be assumed that it is automatically an improvement.
Even if it turns out that there is an optimal choice of colors
that would be an improvement, few of us have the skills to
select that combination of colors (obviously Aldus didn't
do so).

Color monitors also produce more intense low frequency
electromagnetic radiation than B/W monitors, according to
the article in MacWorld.

Steve Goldfield