Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!)

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:46:06 1999

It is also the default color (gray on Blue) for the old DOS WordPerfect
versions.

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-----Original Message-----
From: George Currie <g_at_kurico.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Pink Screen of Death? (was: Re: Hallelujah!)
> Well, I don't know. However, MS Word/Windows and /Macintosh has a strange
> option: to have large white letters on a blue background instead of black
> on white. This has nothing to do with any color settings, and no other
> colors can be used in a similar way. This may have classic reasons. Anyone
> know?
Don't know the exact reason but that was the default color
combination of the DOS version of MS Word (and every day I use
the current version, I long for the old one).
George

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