[rescue] Sun monitors

[Steve Hatle]

Mike,

I have a couple of those monitors in Minnesota...

Steve

> Michael Dombrowski via rescue <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>
> April 10, 2024 at 6:35 AM
> 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
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> On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 06:07:19 AM CDT, silcreval via rescue 
> <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> 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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