OKay, wait a moment, has anyone seen the last Flubber movie with Robin Williams? In the movie there are two compact macs shown, they are 128, or 512 compacts. Anyway, one has a blue screen, the one shown in the basement, and one has an Amber screen, the one shown in the kitchen, Also, you can tell that they are Working compacts. Also most of the old 128 logo pictures show blue screen CRT's, the first Mac TV commercial I remember, was a Blue screen Compact saying "hello".
Could some of these strange color CRTs in Compacts, be just working movie props ??? Think about it, an old B/W screened computer looks bad on TV, not to mention the setup time for a color PC system. When all the prop guy has to do is plug in a Amber Compact, and turn it on, with the startup folder full of what ever needs to be seen on the screen, no muss no fuss, go to the next thing on the 'To Do List'. It is another possibility. Dan M. > >> >I've seen several pics of early 128K Macs where the > >> >screen has a very blue tint, then later ones are > >> >pure white and black. > >> > >> That's probably more a fault of the photography than anything else. > > > >I can think of two other possibilities. It may actually be an 9" amber > >CRT substituted for the B&W (I think this very unlikely) More likely, > >it is a coating on the monitor surface. If you were going to create a > > The guy selling it says the screen really is an amber one. While I'm quite > aware of replacement CRTs (someone actually documented the replacement with > a green CRT about three years back), I highly doubt someone trying to fake > it would have put an amber coating on the screen. > > the pickle -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
