Computer monitors used to be black with green font, right?
2006-09-11 15:21:48 · 8 answers · asked by Dystopian J 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
CRT monitors work by shooting electrons at a phosphorus lining of the tube. before they had the technology for red, green and blue they had monochrome single color tubes.
2006-09-11 15:24:56 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
for some weird reason, the vertical synchronization come trough the green signal, ALWAYS, even on today's HDTV and super VGA monitors, the amount of vertical lines determine the actual resolution of the image, so, that makes green the most important light beam on CRTs
in a monochrome CRT if you only need 1 light beam, it needs to be the one that carries the resolution signal: GREEN.
Now, why did the scientific wizards decide that green was the one? that is a mystery that I promise I will ask around... :)
2006-09-11 22:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by MexicanCurious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Green phosphors were the cheapest and easiest to put on the tube. Pre 1980 Monochrome TVs were also slightly green.
The cool people all ran orange screens.
2006-09-11 22:38:48 · answer #3 · answered by sheeple_rancher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was the hot technology back then. I remember when a dot matrix printer was hot. You kept the box to put on flip over on top of the printer- the technical name for that was the print muffler.
When 2 floppies was hot and a 10 meg hardrive was more storage then anyone would have need. 256K used to be a large amount of memory.
2006-09-12 00:27:11 · answer #4 · answered by starting over 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probabaly did some testing and found out that that is the easiest combination for the eyes.
Hope that helps.
2006-09-11 22:31:23 · answer #5 · answered by phy333 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were monochrome. (one color)
most had green type, the later ones had orange.
2006-09-11 22:27:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that was the technology
2006-09-12 07:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by Wish Master 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they did not have that much tec
2006-09-11 22:24:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋