Washington D.C. Trip

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu May 31 10:20:44 2001

>I reckon that the burn-in on the Xerox Alto was an early "desktop theme" or
>"screen saver" (did the Alto have that feature?). If I recall correctly it
>reminded me of cartoon-like butterflies, flowers, or a bee or something
>>like that.

I always wondered if that was actually screen burn in. As crazy as it
might sound I got the feeling that was actually a clear 'decal' of some
sort applied to the monitor. Don't ask me why on earth I should get such a
strange impression though.

                        Zane

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