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Funny. Back in the day, early 80s, all of the terminals and displays I encountered were black and white. Early monitor for an IMSAI, the Pet, the TRS-80. ADM-3A
by whartung 4y ago
Funny. Back in the day, early 80s, all of the terminals and displays I encountered were black and white. Early monitor for an IMSAI, the Pet, the TRS-80. ADM-3A, VT-100, Telerays.
Apple monitors started coming out in green. First non-B&W actual terminal I saw was a VT-220.
Wasn’t really until late 80s, early 90s the green and amber really started showing up everywhere. HP terminals liked amber.
There was a company that was trying to sell amber monitor for Macintoshes. This was around the same time folks were selling head mounted mice. I didn’t feel either was a particularly good idea.
- projektfu 4y agoThe ADM-3A you mentioned predated the rest and was available in amber, green or white. I remember a few of the amber ones in my middle-school library, as well as white. I also miss the pastel case colors. The monitor on the TRS-80 was a cannibalized black and white television. Cost was probably a big factor in using white for many of those systems.
- euroderf 4y agoAt some point in the 80s, both green and amber were eighty bucks a pop. Not sure what that works out to in contemporary money.