[5027] in Hotline Meeting
Athena monitors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ukim@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon May 13 00:21:58 1991
From: ukim@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 13 May 91 00:21:37 -0400
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: tech@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Hi. I want to complain about the poor quality of some of the Athena
monitors. When I turn up the brightness on one of the older monitors,
the contrast remains so poor that the screen is hard to read. It
hurts my eyes if I look at it for more than a few minutes. Sometimes
there's also a problem of focus. Characters on the screen appear
fuzzy and washed out.
This may not seem at first like a serious problem. But trying to use
these monitors is like reading a book in poor lighting conditions.
Over time, it causes severe eyestrain, which people may not notice or
attribute to other factors, such as fatigue from sitting at the
terminal too long.
Monitors can be replaced. Eyes can't. Please do something about this
problem.
UChin Kim '91
