gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (10/31/90)
Any II-series machine can have the brightness changed (essentially) by attenuating the values in the color table (the INIT "Dimmer" does this). Can the LC be made to dim in this way? "Dimmer" is one of the most foolproof dimmers I've ever seen.
gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/06/90)
/* 2:00 pm 11/5/90 by dwade@jarthur.Claremont.EDU comp.sys.mac.hardware */ > That's not uncommon on any monitor. I know that if I turn the knobs > on my standard Apple monitor (The RGB 13") all the way down, I can still read > text just fine... Ahhhh, you must have a misadjusted monitor. If you open the special service port on an applecolor monitor, you can readjust the brightness and contrast so that "dim" is really "dim", i.e. unreadable. Don't crank up the brightness or you may burn out your screen. Mine went POP!, then blank for half an hour, and I was almost in tears -- but it came back. So be careful! You need a microscopic pen-screwdriver to do it. In other words, do this at your own risk (I did it to get more performance out of MaxApplZoom).