Poll: Best *monochrome* laptop display

From: Paul Braun <nerdware_at_laidbak.com>
Date: Fri Apr 7 23:13:52 2000

Gets my vote. Mine is an original model w/o the backlight. Have
one 1" line of pixels bad after all this time, but once your visual
filters are tuned to it, it's not noticable.

Good job!

> It's -definitely- the Macintosh portable. I was the engineer at Apple who
> was responsible for measuring the quality of that display, and spent much
> of my time at Hosiden's factory outside Osaka. Fun days...
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, David Vohs wrote:
>
> > What is, in your opinion, the best laptop with the best monochrome
> > screen. If I was asked I'd definitely say the Macintosh Portable.
> >
> > I'd say this because this computer was one of the first to use active
> > matrix screen technology. Do remember, in 1989 that was more or less new
> > technology!
> >
> > I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to limit this to laptops with
> > monochrome screens. The last time I did a poll on this list (Top 10:
> > Best laptop keyboard) it went totally off.
> > ____________________________________________________________ David Vohs,
> > Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
> >
> > Computer Collection:
> >
> > "Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
> > "Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
> > "Delorean": TI-99/4A. "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable. "Spectrum":
> > Tandy Color Computer 3. "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.





Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware_at_laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
Received on Fri Apr 07 2000 - 23:13:52 BST