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Subject:RE: blue background, white text From:"Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:19:19 -0700
And all along I just thought is was so the Blue Screen of Death wouldn't be so noticeable ;-)
John
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From: Samuel Choy [mailto:schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 01:08 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: Nancy Kaminski
Subject: RE: blue background, white text
Nancy Kaminski says,
> > Aside from personal preference, why would someone
> > want to do this? I guess I'm wondering why this is
> > such an important option that its a checkbox.
Wasn't that a bone thrown to ex-WordPerfect users? I seem to remember
that WP used to come in white-on-blue. This is in the Word 2.0 days.
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Yup. At my very first TW job, I used WP 5.1 exclusively. White text on blue
screen and everything. Ah memories. I especially used to enjoy the
pterodactyl-wing tacos they sold at lunchtime. You just can't find those
anymore!
