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- From: bressen@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Bressen)
- Subject: Re: Why didn't my apple need a screen saver?
- Message-ID: <C04HH7.EJ4@cs.columbia.edu>
- Summary: Not!
- Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu (The Daily News)
- Organization: Apt of the Wax Donut Eaters
- References: <31DEC92.06222989@vax.clarku.edu> <bazyar.725786539@teal>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:03:07 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <bazyar.725786539@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
- >mmelez@vax.clarku.edu writes:
- >>burn-in. I've had an Apple //e since 1983, with a "monitor ///" monochrome
- >>monitor attached, and my screen has never been burnt in, even when I left it on
- >>for up to 12 hours at a time (usually I would turn it off, but every once
- >>in a while I'd forget). Is it the black-on-white nature of Mac monitors that
- >>requires a screen saver, or was I just lucky with my //e?
- >
- > Well, see, you're one of the special few who have come to realize that
- >'screen saver' is a marketing term. The more appropriate term is
-
- Not by a long shot. Just a quick walk around my workplace and you'll find
- dozens of machines with burnt-in screens...almost invariably the outline of
- a lotus spreadsheet, although the old quotron stock tickers had stock symbols
- burnt in, and pc's dedicated to specific applications like a once-a-week
- dial-up will have that app burnt in. But I'm not talking about 12 hours
- of on-time once in a while. I'm talking in some cases about continuous usage
- for three years or more never being shut off at all except for power failures.
- You can see the same effect on bank ATM machines that have been in place
- for a year or two.
-
- As to the black on white display of a mac, I believe that that was chosen
- to give a WYSIWYG effect, not because it's more legible.
-