18 Jan
2006
18 Jan
'06
3:37 p.m.
mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com wrote:
If you look at IBM documentation (especially the BASIC
manuals from the era) it
is clearly listed as Brown, not dark yellow.
Is it possible for you to email me a scan of this? I'm not sure I have
anything official IBM that states that.
End of discussion?
With a scan, it would be :-)
Perhaps the offending person should tone the
brightness setting down?
Yes, but then that leaves things open to interpretation, and that's what
I'm trying to avoid (it was interpretation that led to the whole mess in
the first place).
Sorry if this seems like a silly issue to everyone, but the potential
for having the wrong colors in all 5150-style emulators is a big deal to me.
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