[rescue] Ultra2 Creator woes

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 14 14:04:47 CST 2001


On November 14, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> yeah, i'm pretty happy.  need to pop some cg6 cards into it for more heads.
> i also need monitors, i'm currently using a converter to get a PC tube on
> there (a nice trinitron 17" so it's not shabby, but still) but this place
> lacks monitors with 13w3 connectors.

  Talk to thalx at raffica.aldor.com.  He has a metric buttload of Sun
monitors.

> like they were going to stop making computers or something and didn't need
> them or what?  still, it's not the smartest idea i've ever seen.  especially
> since you can get SBus frambuffers that have keyboard ports to have multiple
> users on one machine.

  True.  But it's always cheaper to buy a half million of one kind of
component thatn a quarter million of each of two kinds.  And the money
saved could be used to give a nearly-starving $200K/yr tie-wearing
Windows-running Gates-cock-slurping Intel-processor-loving VP a raise!

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL



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