ekijak@ARDEC.ARPA (Edmund S. Kijak) (01/05/87)
In reply to keithd@cadovax.UUCP (whose address our mailer wouldn't accept): The best anti-reflection method I have seen is the one used by DEC on their (for example) Rainbow 100 PC. It is an optical coating the same as is used on expensive camera lenses, telescope and riflescope lenses. In my opinion, it works better than etched glass, polarizing filters, and fine wire-mesh screens that I have seen in front of the screen. A fingerprint on the screen instantly destroys the non-reflective property but so far, the fingerprints have been removable with a cleaning solution (probably alcohol based) with no apparent damage to the coating. The Rainbow monitor I use is monochrome (green) and I have not seen this method used with a color monitor but it should still work. Maybe it's too expensive to apply.
wagner@utcs.UUCP (01/07/87)
In article <911@ulowell.UUCP> ekijak@ARDEC.ARPA (Edmund S. Kijak) writes: >In reply to keithd@cadovax.UUCP (whose address our mailer wouldn't accept): > >The best anti-reflection method I have seen is the one used by DEC on >their (for example) Rainbow 100 PC. It is an optical coating the same >as is used on expensive camera lenses, telescope and riflescope >lenses. By the description, this sounds similar to the coating put on modern IBM 3278 terminals. It sure works well. >Maybe it's too expensive to apply. It might well be expensive. Certainly the IBMers make a big deal of it. Michael