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On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:20:04 -0600, Califbill
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:03:33 -0800 (PST), Tim
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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.

We had those but by the time I had a terminal on my desk, I
transitioned to a PC pretty quickly, even if I had to make it myself.

I had a green mono display at the 4300 support center in Endicott but
I didn't actually stare at it that much. I ended up working with the
engineers as much as I could and I worked with paper as much as stuff
that was online. The field had all the online stuff. We had the actual
documentation. I was happy for the opportunity to go there and more
happy to leave. That was one of the first jobs I said no to.

Our monitors were pretty stable tho.

I was writing firmware using VT-52 and DEC systems for a 6800 based disk
controller in early 1980. 4 systems and 8 disk drives could be connected
together. Was a few years before the monitors improved. Later I used SUN
systems for a 68000 based controller.