<html><body><div dir="ltr">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 🙂</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-t</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Apr 10, 2024 at 12:49:21 PM, Kevin Bowling via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM silcreval via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> I've collected Sun machines for a very long time now, and still use them regularly.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> If I'm using a Sun Blade 2000 then I will go with a Sun LCD monitor of the time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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 :)<br></blockquote><br>Relative to my computer collection, I have probably a 50:1 ratio of<br>period correct monitors. I wish it were higher but the collection<br>originally started in my home so it never even crossed my mind to try<br>to acquire the CRTs, When they were common.. considered e-waste<br>people might have had to pay to dispose of them instead of the<br>collectable status. Now that I have a dedicated facility, of course<br>everything is much harder to find :)<br><br>I am grateful for the ease at which we can build things like keyboard<br>and video converters with modern electronics. And it's often already<br>done by the community.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Does anyone know a source for these in the UK? I've seen a few from time to time.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> 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.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - Ian<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> _______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br>
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