[rescue] Looking : Sgi/Sun stuff

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sat Jun 25 00:15:17 CDT 2005


Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:21:53PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
>>I have a fairly low-mileage Sun 20E20 that I could perhaps let go, since
>>both my 90D10 and my 21" FD Sun have working 13W3 inputs, but shipping
>>from New hampshire to Milwaukee would be a bit of a bitch and probably
>>not worth your while.  There's also the question of non-standardized
>>13W3 pin assignations -- a Sun monitor might not even help you.
> 
> 
> I finally got rid of my last CRT (at work; I got rid of all my CRTs at 
> home when I moved six months ago).  When Dell 17" ES173FP flat panels
> are $225 or less, it's hard not to..

If you have $225 to spend.  ;)

I'd LOVE to replace my 90D10 with an equivalent flat panel ... sharp
edge-to-edge since it'd be running at native resolution 100% of the
time, no color convergence issues, less weight, less bulk, less heat,
less power draw ... but I can't afford to replace it right now.  I'll be
keeping the Sun FD on my GameOS machine until it dies or a better
display technology than LCD comes along, because it gets run at a
variety of different resolutions, and my experience is LCDs running at
other than native resolution look like ass (and not in the good way).


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 Phil Stracchino       phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
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