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Subject: Re: Color Monitors (was Re:Wait a Sec...)
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Date: 9 Oct 88 20:41:24 GMT
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From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)


In  <655@pcsbst.UUCP> jbe@pcsbst.UUCP (John_Brown Evans) writes...

> I'm not sure how much *disposable income* you have, but here the
> general consensus seems to be - you use a color monitor to *play*
> and a monochrome to *work*. Ever tried text-processing on your
> color monitor?

Yes. That's the primary use of my ST. The quality of my SC1224 
(the original 1985 JVC version) compares favorably with the monochrome
monitors on the Atex publishing system I use at work.

I bought the color because the first ST I examined was sitting next to
an Apricot PC running GEM on a monochrome monitor. The Atari made
the Apricot look pretty sick, and it cost about the same.

If I planned to do desktop publishing, the picture would change. :-)
And if I were buying my system from scratch, I'd choose monochrome
and put the extra money toward a hard drive.



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