[rescue] Re: Re: OH YEA??? [was: Re: Ultra?]

[Lionel Peterson]

I like mine, but it is a shelf queen...

I'd *love* to get the second video connector adapter (to allow
dual-head operation)...

Lionel

--- Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:43:16PM -0700, vraptor at employees.org
> wrote:
> 
> > It's too bad they are still so expensive--I recently priced them
> > at like $95 from resellers dealing with old Suns.  I didn't even
> > know about the ZX until about 3 weeks ago while trying to get my
> > SS20 running (diags came on because of a bad DSIMM--I was too
> > impatient and didn't give it a chance to get video output turned
> > up before trying to power off/on--then one time I had to answer
> > the phone, came back and found it with video on. *doh*).
> 
> I wonder what my chances of snagging a copy of World Tool Kit for the
> ZX board would be.  They used to have a copy at school.  Bet then,
> I've so far been unsuccessfull in convincing them to let me take
> their
> ancient 80 meg tape copy of Franz Allegro Common Lisp away.
> 
> I have claimed a ZX board, and when I get it I will be paying far
> less
> than $95 [1].  I don't know what people are using them for.  They
> make 
> crummy 24bit video displays, and there is virtually no software for
> them from what I've seen (except for the afore mentioned WTK),
> although there were supposedly 3rd party OpenGL drivers.
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
> 
> 1. Well, I'm quickly learning that what I've claimed or paid for
>    doesn't mean a thing.  The only thing that matters is having it my
>    hands.  Otherwise who knows if I will ever get it.
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