Yes. Why?sarcasmboy_1 wrote:Has anybody ever read Plato's "The Myth of the Cave"?
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I always felt that it was a nod back to the older generation of PC's folks & not just because it photographs well. Look up MDA Display properties. We had white on black, amber on black or Green on black.Fallout Junkie wrote:What the fuck is up with that greeny computer like writing anyway?
(from http://www.pcguide.com/ref/video/std.htm) Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
The first video cards used in the earliest machines conformed to the MDA standard, established by IBM as part of the original PC. MDA is a monochrome-only, text-only standard, allowing text display at 80x25 characters. Each character is made up of a matrix that is 9 dots wide by 14 dots high, yielding an effective resolution of 720x350 at a refresh rate of 50 Hz (of course it is text-only so these dots are not individually addressable).
Obviously, MDA is beyond obsolete. However, at the time it was a good solution for the limited capabilities of the original PC.
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