[rescue] Sun monitors

[Michael Dombrowski]

 My first Unix machine was a Solbourne SS2 clone and I have vivid memories of using it with a very boxy Sun 16" CRT and type 4 keyboard/optical mouse. I'd love to have CRT monitors for each of my systems (or any CRTs at all), however I am limited by space. My machines are all connected to a KVM and LCD monitors as two 21" Sonys would take up half of my office. The same goes for keyboards. While I am less enamored with old keyboards than old CRTs, it still would be fun to have a proper keyboard for each machine type (at least HP, Sun, DEC), but I simply don't have the space for a pile of keyboards. I never want to use a non-optical (camera) mouse again. 

I know the monitor you are talking about and I've looked at getting one here as well. I'm in the US so I can't help your cause

mike


    On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 06:07:19 AM CDT, silcreval via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:  
 
 

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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