Zane,
You betcha, I've got the VLC plugged into the RGB connections on my P815
right now. Change input ports and voila, VAX display. The PT775 does this
as well. As far as I can tell all Viewsonic monitors with RGB inputs are
sync-on-green compatible.
--Chuck
Oh, WAY COOL! Now the only problem is I've got is that I've got my G4
PowerMac on the BNC's and my 4-port KVM switch on the other. I'll give the
DEC 17" a try first I guess. That's the one I'd prefer to use as the
Viewsonic is used for the Mac which acts as a X-Terminal for my PWS433au.
Zane
Guess I'll reply to myself, I hooked the VAXstation 4000/VLC up to a DEC
VRT17-W3 monitor, dug up the keyboard and hockypuck I happened to have
laying around at the moment, and it's booting. This thing is *SLOW*, the
text scrolling across the screen feels like 2400 baud! Hey, it's now got a
crosshatched screen and mouse pointer, though I can't help but feel I
should have a login....
YES, I'd sabotagued myself a while back when expermenting with this box.
Put the old
DECW$PRIVATE_SERVER_SETUP.COM back in place (that includes
LOCAL as a transport :^) and rebooted. It now works great!!! I finally
have a VAX with a graphical head on it :^)
OTOH, good grief this thing is SLOW!!! It takes forever to bring up a
DECterm window! Though I can move stuff around on the screen fairly fast.
What can I say, I think I've gotten used to VMS on a nice fast fairly
modern Alpha. Still this is very cool, I never thought I'd be running the
VLC with a monitor.
Zane
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