[geeks] Creator 3D graphics on a Sony 400PS

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 11 Aug 2004 @ 02:58 +0000, wa2egp at att.net said:

> > A friend of mine says he got the same monitor that I have working with a 
> > Sun system, he just can't remember how. 
> > 
> > I don't get hits on Google for the combination I'm trying, but which I 
> > would think was a fairly common thing to try. 
> > 
> > If I had just a foot more space on my desk, I'd just get another monitor 
> > that's well documented for Sun video (like maybe a Sun...), but right 
> > now it is just too much space taken up. 
> 
> Figures.  That's why I try to document what I do with my systems.
> Saved my butt on several occasions.  At least you know the monitor
> will work with the Sun.  There has to be a magic combo.

I have log books for my systems.  I'm not perfect, but I do have quite a
bit of information.  Disk labels, equipment, admin logs, etc.

Oh well.  There are Sun->VGA converters, and that's probably the right
way to do it.

I just don't understand why Sony would make a monitor with 5 BNC inputs,
and not have it able to use H or V sync instead of sync-on-green.

This monitor looks for all the world nearly identical to the last one I
used on a Sun, except that one was 21 inches about a year older.

> If we all had one more foot of space on the table......(grin) Reminds
> me of the company that made cables of 7', 13', 26' etc. because you
> always seem to need the cable to be a foot longer.  Don't know if they
> are still in business.

A lot of stores have stopped keeping a variety of cable lengths any
more.  The other day I was out looking for a 1/4 inch stereo extension
to use for headphones, and running sound output from a hidden system.

I found two different sizes of cable locally: 0 feet, or 25 feet.


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