[rescue] Sun monitors

[Todd Vernon]

The real bummer for collectors (I am one as well) is that no LCD’s were
ever made in the Sun “native” format of 1152x900.   Most of my Sun 4 boxes
run TGX+ cards that do 1280x1024 but the ones that don’t have that card
look horrible stretched to 1280x1024.    I wish someone made a box that
would letterbox a pixel perfect screen inside a 1280x1024 screen for
collectors.  The world before antialiasing was a rough time 🙂

-t


Todd Vernon
Entrepreneur | Investor
Email: todd at toddvernon.com
LinkedIn: toddvernon <https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddvernon/>


On Apr 10, 2024 at 12:49:21 PM, Kevin Bowling via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM 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.
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> 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.
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> If I'm using a Sun Blade 2000 then I will go with a Sun LCD monitor of the
> time.
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> 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 :)
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> Relative to my computer collection, I have probably a 50:1 ratio of
> period correct monitors.  I wish it were higher but the collection
> originally started in my home so it never even crossed my mind to try
> to acquire the CRTs,  When they were common.. considered e-waste
> people might have had to pay to dispose of them instead of the
> collectable status.  Now that I have a dedicated facility, of course
> everything is much harder to find :)
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> I am grateful for the ease at which we can build things like keyboard
> and video converters with modern electronics.  And it's often already
> done by the community.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Does anyone know a source for these in the UK? I've seen a few from time
> to time.
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> 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.
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> - Ian
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