From: notsaying@invalid.org   
      
   On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:30:26 GMT, bushy555    
   wrote:   
      
   >> And you can type color rather than restarting cmd if you   
   >>want to play: "color f0" for those that remember the ZX80/81   
   >>[Sinclair,   
   >> Timex I think in USA].)   
   >   
   > Check it out. I reckon that this could be my first post to a newsgroup   
   > since ~1998. Anyhoo, Wow, that colour F0 brings back a lot of bad   
   > memories when I had 850 bytes of a basic listing in memory and the   
   > screen started to shrink on a good old zx81!   Still have three or   
   > four ZX81's under the house which I should dig out one day.   
   >   
   >   
   > The Video Technology "Timex TX8000" (Otherwise known as a Laser 210 or   
   > VZ200 elsewhere throughout the world) used this default colour on   
   > their 6847 video chips: (Same as the MC10 and others that use the   
   > motorola 6847 video chip)   
   >   
   > COLOR 2A   
   >   
   >   
   > ...or my preference has always been Borlands Turbo Pascal / Turbo C   
   > scheme: COLOR 1A   or   COLOR 1F   
   >   
   > /Bushy   
   >   
      
   3B looks OK   
   1E was the Amstrad CPC 464 non-PC "scheme"   
      
      
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