Xerox-Flies (was: Washington D.C. Trip)

From: Brian Chase <bdc_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu May 31 13:49:39 2001

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Hans Franke wrote:

> > >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.
>
> Well, maybe they did run the 'fly-swat' Game for a long time ...
> I don't recall the real name. You hat to 'catch' flies that apeared
> around your window with a mouse klick ... they seamed to be random,
> but they wheren't ... so if you just let this game run for a long
> time, these flies will result in a visible burn in on your nice big
> B&W screen.

Bah, pseudo-random number generators.

-brian.
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