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From: stpeters@dawn.UUCP (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.workstations
Subject: Re: SCREENS HURT EYES (Mac SE, Plus)
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Date: 2 Feb 88 22:44:44 GMT
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In article <1858@cognos.UUCP> roberts%cognos@math.waterloo.EDU (Robert
Stanley) writes: 
>In article <2612@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> dyckman@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU
> (Howard L. Dyckman) writes:
>>My eyes have been hurt by some recent Macintosh screens (SE, Plus).
	...
>Mr Dyckman was recently asked
>to stop repeating his posting on the subject.
>
>At present it would appear that the lowest common denominator is Mr.
>Dyckman and not the Apple Macintosh.  If he is indeed uniquely
>sensitive, he is to be pitied, and I would suggest he picks an
>alternate computer.

Mr. Dyckman may indeed be uniquely sensitive, but picking an alternate
computer likely won't help.  His environment is the more likely
villain.

Nearly (if not absolutely) everyone is sensitive, to some degree, to
eyestrain induced by using terminals of any sort in brightly lit
places.  New York State has just issued guidelines to state agencies
for lighting in areas where terminals are used.  They require subdued
overhead lighting and desk lamps for paperwork.

I've long preferred to work in the dark, and I've received a lot of
good-natured ribbing about it from the non-computer-type folks who
make up most of my group.  However, those same people are using
workstations in their work more and more, and every time I go by the
group's public workstation area lately, they have the lights off.

I've also noticed more and more of the computer jocks around here
taking to working with lights off or greatly dimmed.

Try it a while.  Most likely you will come to like it, and your eyes
will certainly be better off for it.  You may also be able to turn
down the brightness of your screen, and then it will last longer too.
-- 
Dick St.Peters 
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa
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