What were other colors beside green and amber for monochrome monitors?

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In a movie that unfortunately I don't remember the name of, a monochrome monitor using red shade was visible. I found that quite fascinating back then !

Beside green, amber and apparently gray, were other colors ever been in use by some obscure hardware ?

Monochrome laptop screens rendering in negative colors are welcome.

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In a movie that unfortunately I don't remember the name of, a monochrome monitor using red shade was visible. I found that quite fascinating back then !

Beside green, amber and apparently gray, were other colors ever been in use by some obscure hardware ?

Monochrome laptop screens rendering in negative colors are welcome.

crt-monitor

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In a movie that unfortunately I don't remember the name of, a monochrome monitor using red shade was visible. I found that quite fascinating back then !

Beside green, amber and apparently gray, were other colors ever been in use by some obscure hardware ?

Monochrome laptop screens rendering in negative colors are welcome.

crt-monitor

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In a movie that unfortunately I don't remember the name of, a monochrome monitor using red shade was visible. I found that quite fascinating back then !

Beside green, amber and apparently gray, were other colors ever been in use by some obscure hardware ?

Monochrome laptop screens rendering in negative colors are welcome.

crt-monitor

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Non-CRT monochrome screens used various colours related to the underlying technology:

• monochrome plasma screens were reddish-orange; see for example the PLATO terminals or the Toshiba 4400SX;


• early LCD screens were bluish, some more than others; I particularly remember early Toshiba laptops being notably blue (see this photo of a T1000), and many “graphical” calculators exhibit this too.

Many monochrome laptops supported “negative” colours, often using a hotkey to flip from “normal” to inverted colours. See Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 for an example.

Monochrome CRTs’ colour depended entirely on the phosphor used to coat the display; Wikipedia lists the standard phosphor types, of which there are many. Only a few were used in CRT monitors attached to typical computers, giving the typical green, amber or white displays, but other displays used different colours or phosphors with different decay properties: look for EKG monitors and radar screens in the list.

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  Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
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  @tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
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Non-CRT monochrome screens used various colours related to the underlying technology:

• monochrome plasma screens were reddish-orange; see for example the PLATO terminals or the Toshiba 4400SX;


• early LCD screens were bluish, some more than others; I particularly remember early Toshiba laptops being notably blue (see this photo of a T1000), and many “graphical” calculators exhibit this too.

Many monochrome laptops supported “negative” colours, often using a hotkey to flip from “normal” to inverted colours. See Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 for an example.

Monochrome CRTs’ colour depended entirely on the phosphor used to coat the display; Wikipedia lists the standard phosphor types, of which there are many. Only a few were used in CRT monitors attached to typical computers, giving the typical green, amber or white displays, but other displays used different colours or phosphors with different decay properties: look for EKG monitors and radar screens in the list.

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  Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
  – tofro
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
  – Stephen Kitt
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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Non-CRT monochrome screens used various colours related to the underlying technology:

• monochrome plasma screens were reddish-orange; see for example the PLATO terminals or the Toshiba 4400SX;


• early LCD screens were bluish, some more than others; I particularly remember early Toshiba laptops being notably blue (see this photo of a T1000), and many “graphical” calculators exhibit this too.

Many monochrome laptops supported “negative” colours, often using a hotkey to flip from “normal” to inverted colours. See Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 for an example.

Monochrome CRTs’ colour depended entirely on the phosphor used to coat the display; Wikipedia lists the standard phosphor types, of which there are many. Only a few were used in CRT monitors attached to typical computers, giving the typical green, amber or white displays, but other displays used different colours or phosphors with different decay properties: look for EKG monitors and radar screens in the list.

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edited 4 hours ago

answered 4 hours ago

Stephen Kitt

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
  – tofro
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
  – Stephen Kitt
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

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Non-CRT monochrome screens used various colours related to the underlying technology:

• monochrome plasma screens were reddish-orange; see for example the PLATO terminals or the Toshiba 4400SX;


• early LCD screens were bluish, some more than others; I particularly remember early Toshiba laptops being notably blue (see this photo of a T1000), and many “graphical” calculators exhibit this too.

Many monochrome laptops supported “negative” colours, often using a hotkey to flip from “normal” to inverted colours. See Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 for an example.

Monochrome CRTs’ colour depended entirely on the phosphor used to coat the display; Wikipedia lists the standard phosphor types, of which there are many. Only a few were used in CRT monitors attached to typical computers, giving the typical green, amber or white displays, but other displays used different colours or phosphors with different decay properties: look for EKG monitors and radar screens in the list.

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edited 4 hours ago

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Non-CRT monochrome screens used various colours related to the underlying technology:

• monochrome plasma screens were reddish-orange; see for example the PLATO terminals or the Toshiba 4400SX;


• early LCD screens were bluish, some more than others; I particularly remember early Toshiba laptops being notably blue (see this photo of a T1000), and many “graphical” calculators exhibit this too.

Many monochrome laptops supported “negative” colours, often using a hotkey to flip from “normal” to inverted colours. See Invert LCD screen in DOS 5.0 for an example.

Monochrome CRTs’ colour depended entirely on the phosphor used to coat the display; Wikipedia lists the standard phosphor types, of which there are many. Only a few were used in CRT monitors attached to typical computers, giving the typical green, amber or white displays, but other displays used different colours or phosphors with different decay properties: look for EKG monitors and radar screens in the list.

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edited 4 hours ago

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answered 4 hours ago

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answered 4 hours ago

Stephen Kitt

29.9k4122145

29.9k4122145

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
  – tofro
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
  – Stephen Kitt
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
  – tofro
  3 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  @tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
  – Stephen Kitt
  2 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
– tofro
3 hours ago

Don't forget early plasma displays that were really red: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmabildschirm#/media/…
– tofro
3 hours ago

@tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
– Stephen Kitt
2 hours ago

@tofro that’s the PLATO terminal, which I linked to — from the photo it doesn’t seem all that red, was it really red or somewhere between red and orange?
– Stephen Kitt
2 hours ago

add a comment | 

 

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