MICRO-PROFESSOR

INFO :  This page is the information details page about the Flite Electronics International, Ltd (archive) project. Here you will get the overview and zoomed in details.

 

 

2026-11-01

 

 

1) Why "Electric Yellow" on "Black"

 

This color (colour) combination is a high contrast scheme and in my opinion looks good for technical information such as 

circuit diagrams, ASM source code and HEX machine code listings.

 

 

We are basing this color on GRiD computing machines used for military and government applications, it is a no nonsense 

high contrast, we mean business, no fancy color pallet. A brutal stark, this is what it does, the display has got one color.

 

Yes we know there are shades of yellow in that picture illustration, it will be fixed, using one color. *guess?*

 

(click image to enlarge)

https://micro-professor.org/gallery/Micro-Professor-Archive-Project.png

 

Where does the Electric Yellow color (colour) come from?

*note* Electric Yellow as per the "Electroluminescent Screen" on the GRiDcase laptop computer used in the film "Aliens" 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKefUNZOHA "Aliens" Sentry Guns Scenes (Directors Cut)

https://www.griduk.com/products/rugged-laptops/gridcase-1590/  GRiD computers made for Military / NASA and TLA's

https://micro-professor.org/gallery/GRiD_Compass_II_1129_USA-1883058602.jpg used by US Government

https://micro-professor.org/gallery/GRiDcase.jpg

https://micro-professor.org/gallery/GRiDCompassInSpace.jpg  GRiD in Space (NASA)

more on the GRiD SPoC system later and how it became essential equipment for the NASA Astronauts on the Space Shuttle

 

IBM approached Microsoft, Digital Research and the GRiD corporation for the 1981 IBM PC contract.

In a parallel universe the IBM PC could have started with Electric Yellow rather than MATRIX green.

For those who don't like the Electric Yellow PDF documents there will be the B&W alternative

 

Yes we like GRiD computers here at the Archive Project, we have several of them and they have a special

feature, ROM slots designed for a custom Operating System. i.e. non IBM PC compatible. You can write your own

robot gun sentry OS, see the film "Aliens" this is now a computer that does automatic machine gun stuff nothing else.

 

https://micro-professor.org/GRiD  (to be updated)

 

The GRiD computer with its unique ROM feature will become part of the Flite Electronics International "X86 archive",

using our advanced FLT-86 breakdown and how to write custom ROM code in X86 to create a unique MOS appliance. 

i.e. interface a GRiD Tempest (a laptop heavier than a desktop) with the FLT-86 to access the internal development tools.

 

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