Timeline for Why were early personal computer monitors not green?
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| Oct 7, 2018 at 5:49 | comment | added | Bitbang3r | Hmmm... now that you mention it, they were probably IBM 3151 terminals. | |
| Oct 7, 2018 at 1:12 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | "IBM VT-102" - no such thing. Probably DEC VT102. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 23:02 | comment | added | supercat | I wonder why terminals that used green monitors weren't designed to slightly shift the position of the display over the course of a few hours as a means of mitigating burn-in effects. Most displays had a row or two of border at top and bottom, and 2-3 characters on the sides, so shifting by +/- half a character or so would have yielded a much less concentrated burn-in pattern. | |
| Oct 6, 2018 at 19:55 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 6, 2018 at 19:53 | history | answered | Bitbang3r | CC BY-SA 4.0 |