> > > Come to think of it, I also picked up such words as "magenta" and "cyan" from my early computer geekdom.
> >
> > Hee. Back when the set of color codes was 1-16. 1 was transparent, 2 was black, and 16 was white. Those were the days...
>
> Heh. May have been true on the TI-99/4A (and indeed, I vaguely remember playing around with its color codes during my childhood), but the ones I most fondly remember were those from GW-BASIC for the PC.
>
> Which, of course, were completely different from TI's. Go figure. :)
>
> -- codeman"10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD ";:GOTO 10"38

Back in my ZX Spectrum days (the first 'pooter I had that was capable of displaying colour), you had an 8 colour palette, and any 8x8 block was only capable of displaying 2 colours at a time.

winter"That would have been when I was 7"mute