[rescue] Sun monitors
silcreval
silvercreekvalley at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 10 07:05:33 EDT 2024
I've collected Sun machines for a very long time now, and still use them regularly.
One thing I like to do is assemble systems with appropriate monitors/keyboards where I can. So if I'm using an Sparcstation 20 I like to have the keyboard/mouse and CRT monitor that would have been around a the time.
If I'm using a Sun Blade 2000 then I will go with a Sun LCD monitor of the time.
I wonder if anyone else does this - or do you go with newer LCD screens for convenience? As I used these systems commercially back in the 90s and 00s, and even as late as the 10s, I get more of the 'ambience' of the time if I'm using a CRT say rather than a 4K monitor 'scaling' the video on a 32" screen :)
One system I'd like to recreate is an Ultra 45 with what I believe would have been the monitor at the time - aka the 365-1434, a 24.1" LCD monitor which had two legs at each end of the monitor. It was probably unusual at the time as most monitors have just the central stand.
These for whatever reason are hard to find in the UK, and the systems I see in the US are often cheap (<$100) but require a big spend on postage (aka $200) which together with import duty which will be added on all that makes it ridiculous.
Does anyone know a source for these in the UK? I've seen a few from time to time.
Just FYI - I've started putting together some photographs of systems with matching monitors/keyboards etc and will probably upload them somewhere if anyone is interested.
- Ian
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