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[Terminator Series] POV scenes

Just a couple of questions which I sometimes wonder about the Terminator POV scenes. I'm thinking mainly of the POV scenes in T1 and T2, as they're more conceptually tight, and the later films seem to use POV as more expository.

1) Are the Terminators gaining information from the screen in the same way we are? If I see a face, for example, information about its emotional state is, so to speak, phenomenologically embedded and "flavours" the perception, rather than me having to read off that it's "angry" or whatever. I often wonder, if Terminators are self-aware or conscious, whether they just "know" certain things as part of their software without having to literally read it off of a visual display.

2) Why are there no POV scenes of the T-1000? Does it have a visual display at all?

3) What are all the random numbers displayed on the side of the T-800 screen?

4) Isn't it a pretty massive disadvantage that the T-800 sees everything as a shade of red (i.e. it has an apparently extremely limited colour vocabulary)?
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The visual display we see isn't the Terminator's main perception.  Terminators just gather data from the sensors and use it directly.  What we're seeing is legacy code that's producing a sort of diagnostics screen originally meant for human operators to understand what the early hunter-killers were doing.  Skynet hasn't had a need to eliminate that bit of code yet, so you can still take a peek at it.