Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ucsdhub!sdsu!sdsuelx.uucp!coffey From: coffey@sdsuelx.uucp (pat coffey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Color Monitors (was Re:Wait a Sec...) Message-ID: <3163@sdsu.UUCP> Date: 22 Sep 88 23:35:10 GMT Sender: news@sdsu.UUCP Reply-To: coffey@sdsuelx.uucp (pat coffey) Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 29 Jos Vermaseren asks: . . . > This leaves the question: why is the American preference for color so much > greater than in Europe? I posed this question a long time ago, but nobody > could come up with an explanation. Anybody has one? I bought an Atari 520 ST when they first came out. I wanted a good, clear monitor, so I got a monochrome monitor, which was much better than what IBM had to offer at the time. I soon discovered, however, that most of the software available in the U.S., especially the PD stuff, was not runnable on my system. After several years, I broke down and bought a color monitor so that I could run some of these programs. When I do my real computer work, I always use the monochrome monitor. When I joined our local Atari user group, I discovered that most of the early members were former owners of 8-bit atari machines. I think all of them had color monitors and all of them loved computer games. None of the games worked on monochrome at that time. I don't know if that's the reason, but I recently heard that U.S. dealers are having a hard time finding color monitors, so the picture in the U.S. may soon change. _ _ Pat Coffey |_) (_ San Diego State University |