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From: latornell@MECH.UBC.CA (Doug Latornell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: All Black Screen Savers
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Date: 8 Feb 90 08:40:00 GMT
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There have been some comments recently about potential damage resulting from
the use of screen savers that change the screen to all black.  Could someone
please explain this?  I thought the idea of a screen saver was to preserve
the phosphorous by displaying nothing when the machine is not in use.
 
I've been using Moshe Braner's (sp?) Idle 1.2 for about 2 years now on a
1040ST with a SM124 (monchrome) monitor and have noticed no ill effects.
Am I slowly killing my monitor??

Doug Latornell
latornell@mech.ubc.ca