
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, June 9, 1994                   TAG: 9406160056
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

FLYING TOASTERS OBSOLETE?

Part computer program,part computer utility, part entertainment and maybe even part art - computer screen savers are filling the shelves at software stores and moving around the display terminals of millions of home and office computers.

The scree-saver programs, which cost between $20 and $50 each, actually have outlived theiroriginal purpose of preventing computer images from etching themselves into screens by being continously displayed. Preventing screen "burn-in"isn't as essential as it used to be, with the move to color terminals and away from mono-chrome monitors.

by CNB