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For you monochrome lovers out there, which phosper do you prefer?

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Amber? Green? White?

I have always preferred amber myself, though I don't have one in my possession. Might try to find a 9" amber tube for my luggable.
 
Red? Do you mean gas plasma?

I actually prefer amber. Green always played with my eyes, and everything would look purple when I would stare too long at the screen than a white wall of background.

I have seen photos of YELLOW but never used one (ie zorba portables). I think I might like that screen If I used it.
 
I like the amber on some things but green is my favorite. I don't mind the orange on orange gas plasma screen in my Compaq Portable 3, but it has to be turned down to a pretty low brightness.
 
My Mac IIX at one time had a uses a 19" paper white monitor attached to it. Heavy screen burn. It was still as sharp as a tack. I am so regretful I didn't buy up as many 20" black and white monitors as I could in the early 2000s. They could be bought in the back pages of computer shopper, when it was tabloid sized.
 
There is something beautiful about amber, but I appreciate the green too (both for text). Now if you are talking graphics/bit map environment, the paper white is the only way to go.
 
I have seen some mono monitors/terminals that have a bit of a blue hue to them. I guess it's just weird white. But I like it. I hate amber.. had those in both our C64 and PC lab at school.
 
Depends. If I'm looking at light characters on dark background, then green. If it's dark characters on light background, then white; ambe or green make seeing too difficult.

How's that for abiguity?
 
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I have seen some mono monitors/terminals that have a bit of a blue hue to them. I guess it's just weird white. But I like it.
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I like that too.

I hate amber.. had those in both our C64 and PC lab at school.
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I don't hate amber. I just can't stare at it for too long. It was said to be easier on the eyes then green. Yeah. Reminds me of the fires of Hell.
 
I like them all - except plain white. Amber has that 1984-1988 feel for me. I remember when it came out and I wanted an amber monitor badly. It's probably easiest on the eyes. Green with long persistent phosphors and lots of glow is great. Blue tinged "white" CRT was great too, but a little blurry compared to the others. I don't like plain white because it reminds me of MS-DOS on a colour CRT - boring!

My Kaypro II, glowing green screen:
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When I got my Amiga, I was thrilled that I could have all three of my favourite monochrome colours at the same time, and this is how I had my text editor (plus fancy background gradient):

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My file manager was similar and my full-screen shell was blue text. Amber was always highlight text.
 
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I might have been the only person using a 12" green monochrome monitor with an Amiga twenty years ago.

I currently use this because Lightwave3D is colourless anyway, and interlacing is less obtrusive with phosphor persistence.
 
Maybe because my eyes are 40 years older or I'm not staring at a CRT for 12 hours at a time, but I actually like the white phosphor now. My CRTs on my TRS-80 I and III and Sanyo 9" are my current favorites. Amber and green are still fine, like the smaller green CRTs on my Compaq Portable and Kaypro II. So perhaps it's a size thing over a phosphor thing?
 
"Retro" means different things to different people. I recall that the CDC 200 series terminals from 50 years ago used white phosphor. 40 years ago, green was the rage, 30 years ago, amber had a popularity surge. Now it doesn't matter; everything is full color.
 
Was there ever a manufacturer crazy enough to do tubes with a red phosphor for low light conditions or did everyone just use white phosphor and red gels?
 
I've seen red CRTs (glass face so I assume red phosphor) for data display. I'm not sure what the reasoning was.
 
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