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From: ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless @ Imperial Propoganda)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.info-terms
Subject: Re: VDT's and eyes.
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Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 22:13:50 EST
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> > In article <488@ucdavis.UUCP>, ccrdave@ucdavis.UUCP (Lord Kahless @ Imperial Propoganda) writes:
> > >
> > >Anybody else notice that a lot of the cheap green monitors just KILL your
> > >eyes when you're working under fluorescent lights?
> > >
> > >Also, what's the best vt100 type terminal for someone with very bad eyes?
> > 
> > Even good green monitors bother some people.  Personally I like white the
> > best followed by amber, but some people can't stand staring at white, either.
> I would also plug the Tektronix 4105, 4107, 4109 series of color graphics
> terminals.  They support ANSI (VT100), and VT52 functions and you can select
> both the color of the character, the color of the background around the
> characters and the color of the screen area where no characters have been
> placed yet.  I like to use white characters on a blue background with the
> cleared screen area also blue but others in my area use differant combinations.

The 4105's we have here at Davis aren't bad, but the convergence tends
to be terribly fuzzy.  Tek doesn't seem to be able to fix it.  The 4107
is better, but a 220 with amber monitor seems MUCH easier on my weak
eyes.