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The Bloomberg Terminal still has amber-on-black text as the default for a lot of its content, presumably to mimic the original amber displays they used in the 80s. The funny thing is a lot of people just associate that color scheme with the Terminal now, not realizing that it used to be common for monitors back then.


Now that you bring this up, I wonder if the LCARS interface from Star Trek TNG being primarily amber was inspired by Amber screens and work interfaces like those from Bloomberg Terminals.




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