On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:20:04 PM UTC-6, Califbill wrote:
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:03:33 -0800 (PST), Tim

wrote:







Bill, my wife has suffered the same fate. Besides poor eyesight running

in her family, Years of staring at a computer screen at work took a lot of it's toll.



The most damage was probably caused by the 'green' or 'orange' screens back in the day.



I remember working with one of her early computers, and it wasn't 5

minutes before my eyes were hurting. I kept darkening the screen until

it was almost out, but to no avail. Glad those days are over.



I always try to stay pretty far away from the monitor. I am about 6

feet right now and I did the same thing in my office.

I also used yellow on light blue for my colors. It seemed easier on

the eyes than all the other choices.



I am not sure what the numbers are but my eye doctor says all I need

is garden variety reading glasses. I do OK for everything but close

work in bad light and I can't read a 1/4" glass fuse anymore. I

remember when I used to be the fuse reader for the "old guys".



These were mono color terminals. And the letters would move and flicker

some.

And the letters had overly bright edges in the corners of the letters...