[geeks] Sun stuff on auction locally

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Feb 12 13:06:20 CST 2002


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:03:30AM -0800, Fogg, James wrote:
> If you are completely unfamiliar with Sun, know that they require a slightly
> special monitor. They have a connector known as a 13W3 and use video cards
> known as frame buffers. You can get 13W3<->VGA adapters, but the VGA monitor
> needs to be able to sync on green and handle high resolution (1024 X 768 or
> higher at 60hz refresh as I recall). The newer UltraSparcs use VGA. So, get
> the monitor if you get a sparcstation.

*some* of the newer UltraSPARCs use VGA (like the SunBlade 100); my SunBlade
1000 has a C3Dv3 with 13W3.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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