Amber computer displays

[mtbc]

Before I graduated, I did a bit of freelance IT consulting. Over thirty years ago now, one of my jobs was to migrate a legal practice from their old Wang business system to a modern PC/Windows-based system. Following the rule that older computer stuff tends to be better, the Wang system was rather nice to use, I got to dig into it in working out what data they had there and how to extract it: I would bring that data home on 5¼" floppies and do some transformation to it before ingesting it into the new system.

The practice's main book-keeper had a computer with a display that was really lovely to read. It was amber, and crisp enough that I surmise it probably used real P3 phosphor, not just some colour setting. Given how much of what I do remains largely text-based, I wonder if I might appreciate there being some system now that I could buy that is basically such a display with some wired way to plug in a keyboard and serial networking so it can run as a text-based terminal client of a modern Linux system, or even just plug it straight in as some monochrome monitor for which we still have some ancient driver code in Linux.

Comments

[thewayne]

My first monitor when I bought a PC was the Amdek.  I liked it, though it was a small CRT as it had a carry handle built-in.  It was amusing playing color games on a monochrome monitor.  I can't remember where I was first exposed to the Amdek before I bought it, but I did like that monitor.  ChatGPT recommended RetroArch or ShaderGlass for potentially mimicking an Amdek.

[mtbc]

Mmm, I've wondered how good a simulation one might get when one's display is physically based on RGB LCD technology. Having said that, perhaps it's harder for me to tell the difference now that my eyes have aged!