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From: mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Facit (\"ideal?\") Twist
Message-ID: <320@forbrk.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 16:48:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: forbrk.320
Posted: Thu May 14 16:48:06 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 13:12:43 EDT
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Reply-To: mats@forbrk.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Organization: Fortune Systems/Berkeley, Berkeley CA
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In article <7325@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>
>   This is the ONLY
>   terminal (as opposed to bit-mapped display) that I have worked with that 
>   can comfortably be used in inverse video, especially with the white
>   phosphor (in other words, black letters on white background).
>
>After staring at SUN consoles for awhile, I run all my terminals (vt220,
>orange; tv950, green; Datamedia 80/1, bluish white) in inverse video. 
>Strangely enuf, regular video looks as horrible to me now as inverse
>video did long ago. Tastes change I guess.
>

After getting used to the Facit, I went back and started using all my
other terminals in inverse. I do this with each new type of terminal;
after a relatively short time, I give up on each. The almost-subliminal
wiggle/flicker just drives me nuts. If you ever want to see this
clearly, darken the room a bit and sit somewhere away from the
terminal doing something else. Out of the corner of your eye, you
will (probably) see this flicker on the screen. Anyway, the point
was that the Facit, because of its' higher refresh rate, seems not
to suffer this problem, and thus is the only terminal comfortable
for me in inverse video.

/Mats