You’re going to be able to view data and whatever on your laptop in lurid colour very soon – if you’re prepared to pay for it: leading the way is the active matrix display developed by IBM Japan and Toshiba Corp – in an active matrix, the transistors are deposited directly on the screen surface, and have high contrast and are very fast, but yields are still so low – a single faulty transistor means that the missing pixel is clearly visible – so prices are expected to be in the $2,000 range and up; Hitachi Ltd has a 6 active-matrix colour display, and is looking at a price of $2,200 with Colour Graphics Array support, but for those prepared to accept lower quality just to get it in colour, Sharp Corp has a conventional liquid crystal diode display with a simple three colour grid, and will have it on a laptop by the end of 1989.
