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Re: Blinken lights making a comeback

From	Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Blinken lights making a comeback
Date	2020-11-14 21:30 -0600
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On 11/14/2020 4:03 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-11-14, JimP wrote:
>> On 14 Nov 2020 07:47:29 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2020-11-14, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 2:21:35 PM UTC-7, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why is it called RGB -- can you also get CMYK?
>>>>
>>>> Because it's built around light _emitting_ diodes, it is necessary to use
>>>> additive color mixing instead of subtractive color mixing. Now if you
>>>> instead used a white backlight, behind a three-layer liquid crystal panel
>>>> with a suitable design...
>>>
>>> I was joking, of course ... but I /did/ find "RGB" a strange name for
>>> the feature "can emit any color". OTOH I cannot easily come up with a
>>> better one ... possibly "controllable colored light".
>>>
>>> /Jorgen
>>
>> The Amiga computer had a RGB monitor, red-green-blue.
> 
> I meant to say it looked strange /in context/: I googled and found web
> pages about "RGB computer cases".
> 
> I had never heard about this phenomenon before. I have obviously not
> been paying attention. I went to a local store's page now, and decided
> to look at desktop (non-tower) cases.  The only hit was for a case
> that was built into an actual desktop!  (Lian Li DK-05F).
> 
> I also note that 241 cases out of 309 there were black, the most
> impractical color for a piece of hardware.
> 
Oh, come on. When I was a kid and interested in electronics (not 
exactly pre-computer, but before transistors were common), me and my 
friends knew that the way to identify the best (often surplus) 
equipment was that it had a black crackle finish. But even today, the 
3 towers in eyeshot of my desk have black cases. (Crackle, alas, seems 
to have vanished, probably takes too long for the paint to set. Or 
it's just out of fashion.) What's impractical?

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Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 14:09 -0500
  Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-11-11 15:50 -0600
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 17:01 -0500
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-11-12 18:38 +0000
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2020-11-11 16:10 -0800
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2020-11-11 16:13 -0800
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 19:23 -0500
  Re: Blinken lights making a comeback drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2020-11-11 21:57 -0600
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-11-11 23:09 -0500
  Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-11-12 10:35 -0700
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-12 14:03 -0500
  Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-11-13 21:21 +0000
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-11-13 17:16 -0500
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Robert Netzlof <rnetzlof@gmail.com> - 2020-11-13 14:36 -0800
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2020-11-13 17:24 -0600
          Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-11-14 00:21 +0000
            Re: Blinken lights making a comeback J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-11-13 19:56 -0500
          National Lampoon on computers and electronics (was: Blinken lights making a comeback) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-11-15 12:09 +0000
            Re: National Lampoon on computers and electronics (was: Blinken lights making a comeback) Michael LeVine <mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com> - 2020-11-15 04:17 -0800
            Re: National Lampoon on computers and electronics (was: Blinken lights making a comeback) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-11-15 18:03 +0000
              Re: National Lampoon on computers and electronics (was: Blinken lights making a comeback) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2020-11-15 18:16 +0000
                Re: ancient computer humor, was National Lampoon lights making a comeback) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-11-15 20:39 +0000
                Re: ancient computer humor, was National Lampoon lights making a comeback) Dallas <dallas@texas.usa> - 2020-11-15 18:37 -0600
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-11-13 20:32 -0400
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-11-13 22:51 +0000
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-13 18:54 -0500
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-11-13 20:22 -0800
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-11-14 07:47 +0000
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 07:28 -0500
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-11-14 12:38 +0000
          Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 08:19 -0500
            Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-11-14 13:22 +0000
              Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 12:26 -0500
                Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2020-11-14 21:27 +0000
                Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 19:20 -0500
              Re: Blinken lights making a comeback J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 12:37 -0500
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 12:03 -0600
          Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-11-14 22:03 +0000
            Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-11-14 21:30 -0600
              Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-11-15 08:51 +0000
            Re: Blinken lights making a comeback JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-11-15 14:02 -0600
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-11-17 10:31 -0700
  Re: Blinken lights making a comeback "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-11-14 20:02 +0100
    Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 14:33 -0500
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-11-14 21:19 +0100
        Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2020-11-14 16:27 -0500
          Re: Blinken lights making a comeback Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-11-14 17:16 -0800
      Re: Blinken lights making a comeback scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-11-14 22:31 +0000

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