On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:39:41 PM UTC-6, 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".

I can still do pretty well on the 'small print' but darkness is creeping in.. When in my teens. I push mowed a lot of lawns, and ours was the last to get cut. when the sun was going down in the summer, I could mow into the dark with a half moon as my only light.

Those days are close to gone now.