What colour is the dark green on 'old fashioned' green screen computer displays/VDUs?
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I'd like to make my text editors display like the old skool white-on-green VDUs of yore that I can just about remember from my childhood. I have this idea they might be easier on my old eyes. I was wondering if there was standard dark green used on these and, if so, what the RGB or Hex values for it might be?
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DaveBoltman's answer is very remarkable and useful. However, the phosphors' wavelengths in Wikipedia are not exact. There are other references and Google books giving slightly different values. For instance, P1 w/l is 525, not 528 nm: http://www.labguysworld.com/crt_phosphor_research.pdf Anyway, I remember what colors those phosphors displayed (including the amber phosphors), so I am nearly sure of these RGB and Hex values: I suppose that Apple //c and Apple /// monitors used the P24 GE phospho…
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