Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Color Monitors (was Re:Wait a Sec...)
Summary: 50 Hz vs. 60 Hz?
Message-ID: <521@mks.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 18:27:11 GMT
References: <3163@sdsu.UUCP> <120@pande.UUCP> <484@forty2.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <484@forty2.UUCP>, poole@forty2.UUCP (Simon Poole) writes:
> Since the ST does
> not have such a `games machine` image here, people tend to buy the B&W
> monitor, mainly because  it's  much easier on  your eyes (and there is
> quite a lot of stuff here that only runs on a B&W system).

Here's my two cents worth -- in both places (North America (including
Canada :-) and Europe) the monochrome monitor uses a 70 Hz refresh,
right? But the colour monitor uses 50 Hz in Europe, if I'm not mistaken,
and 60 Hz in North America.  Perhaps there is more noticeable flicker in
Europe, and so they don't like to use the colour monitor all day.  Over
here, the 60 Hz flicker is not so noticeable, and I don't mind using the
colour monitor for long periods.  The characters aren't as well defined
as on the monochrome, but it isn't any harder on my eyes. 
-- 
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