[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 257, Issue 20

Sun May 26 10:14:02 EDT 2024

Unfortunately I don't possess info on sun plates

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>    1. Re: Sun monitors (Steve Hatle)
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> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:15:05 -0500
> From: Steve Hatle <steve.hatle at gmail.com>
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> Cc: bastian.tenbergen at gmail.com, silcreval
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> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun monitors
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> From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling at kev009.com>
> To: "bastian.tenbergen at gmail.com" <bastian.tenbergen at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [rescue] Sun monitors
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 12:01?PM bastian.tenbergen at gmail.com <
> bastian.tenbergen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Long time follower ? first time poster to this list.
> >
> > Not sure if this perhaps strays too far from the topic, but I?m with a
> > university and my department is liquidating our vintage-ish Sun
> collection.
> > We have a ton of 20?L204FY LCD screens give away. Picture:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pxb1T7cWjzTkaYrxVyCx4w9TJudsT8ZM/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > Label:
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/15TwfxG3we155H53mraBq7PrRdpz0SxpQ/view?usp=drive_link
> >
> >
> >
> > We also have one Model AI24PO, and a whole host of SunRay Gen1 and Gen2,
> > Type 6 and 7 Keyboards, and some Mice, and some servers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Free to anyone who?s willing to come by and pick up in Central New York.
> > We may ask for a donation to our student fund, 100% of proceeds will to
> go
> > students. If this list is interested, I can post more details.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any interest?
> >
>
> I;d be interested in a couple and a couple keyboards if we can ship them.
> Maybe a student can make some extra cash being a courier to a pack-and-ship
> joint?
>
>
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Bastian
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *__________________________________*[image: NY Oswego]
> > <http://www.oswego.edu/>
> >
> >
> > *Dr. Bastian Tenbergen *Associate Professor of Software Engineering
> >
> >
> >
> > Office Hours: https://bit.ly/tenbergen-office-hours-signup
> >
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> >
> > *State University of New York at Oswego*7060 State Route 104
> > Oswego, NY, 13126, USA
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> > E  bastian.tenbergen at oswego.edu
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> >
> >
> >
> > [image: 1aa3ae-22f4-4ed9-bfd4-35cb8d8633b6]
> > <https://twitter.com/BTenbergen>[image: -trans]
> > <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bastian_Tenbergen>[image:
> > 24d431-b33f-4266-8e00-6ec431907477]
> > <https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=24491293>
> >
> > I do my best to answer your emails quickly during normal business hours
> > (M-F, 8am-5pm EST), but perhaps not outside of that time. I encourage you
> > to do the same.
> >
> >
> >
> > ?Look here! This ending quote is witty
> > Adorns this email so pretty
> > The perfect disguise
> > To prevent you realize
> > That the rest of this message is sh? not as clever.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/10/24, 14:50, "rescue" <rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 4:07?AM 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 :)
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 :)
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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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