[iso947]

First colour monitor I had was orange, light orange, dark orange and very dark orange - a CGA laptop from my dads work. I remember Railroad Tycoon Ran with option 5,1,2 but Civilisation would have to wait a few years for the full blown desktop 286 (12Mhz, 1M ram and a full 40MB hard drive!)

[tyingq]

Sounds like a gas plasma display.

[Decade]

No, it’s a plain CRT.

Monochrome CRTs can use any color for the phosphor, and cheap displays usually used some variant of green or orange.

[iso947]

Laptop, it wasnt a CRT

Like this

https://gtello.pagesperso-orange.fr/t3200_e.htm

[tyingq]

Thanks. I'd said gas plasma because it can be really orange, where the common CRT color is more amber/yellow than orange.