• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          Reflective LCDs would have been equally blurry, in full color, and still tolerated optional tennis-ball-green frontlights for playing under the covers.

          The real surprise came a decade later when everybody except Nintendo missed that active TFTs made color a decent option.