[Sunhelp] SGI + Sun Monitor

Gregory Leblanc gleblanc at cu-portland.edu
Mon Jan 10 08:50:52 CST 2000


Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:10:56AM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> > Indeed, many DEC and IBM monitors of the era can handle a variety of syncs
> > without trouble.  The IBM 6091 can handle sync on green (as used by SGI,
> > HP and IBM), composite sync (Sun) and seperate sync (PC's).  Great monitor
> > to have on the test bench.  Heck, the 6091/23 makes a good bench all by
> > itself (weighing in at 105lb).
> > -James
> 
> There's a TWENTY-THREE inch version of the 6091?  egads.. I thought the
> 6091-19 was bad enough... I replaced my 6091 (which worked wonderfully
> with my  Ultra 5, with a HD15-5BNC cable) with a GDM20D10, and then replaced
> the GDM20D10 with a GDM20E20.  I *love* the 20E20, its the best monitor
> I"ve ever seen on a computer...  Not bad for a piece of equipment that was
> manufactured in '96.
> 
> (plus, it doesent have that annoying little remote with no way to tell
> EXACTLY what your settings are.. I like the OSD on the '20).

Hey, I'd take a little remote instead of having to take the plastic
casing off of mine to adjust anything except brightness and contrast on
this GDM-1962B.  This is a really nice monitor for it's age, since it
came with an SS330, but only if you don't want to adjust the picure,
ever...
	Greg






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