26 Mar
2001
26 Mar
'01
9:41 p.m.
I have a 17 inch Sony monitor (model GDM-1950) free to
anyone who
wants to
pick it up. The catch, it has a sync(?) problem and
therefore
doesn't
display anything very well. Beautiful (and huge and
heavy) - if
you can fix
it you'll have a great monitor. Email or call for
info. Has to be
out of
here in the next two weeks.
Hmm, I've got a 16" version of one of these which I use now and again - the
picture quality is far superior to most of the junk out there these days (I
guess these things almost hit the 10 year mark? I believe mine was dated
around '92)
They work well under Linux if you're prepared to do a bit of tweaking of
video modes - no need for a special graphics board. I believe I got mine
working under DOS a few years ago with an old Trident video board too - one
of the larger-column text modes happened to work with it nicely.
there's quite a bit of tweaking that can be done inside the monitor too (be
careful, obviously) if you're prepared for a few hours of suffering!
Maybe someone knows what the options are for converting a fixed-frequency
monitor to multisync? (Tony??) - can this even be done, is it way too much
trouble etc.? Presumably fixed-frequency and multisync monitors are 90% the
same inside (at least in concept)? Certainly the big old workstation
monitors I've seen inside of seemed to be nicely broken into stages...
cheers
Jules