Solbournes for sale (UK).

[Bob McCauley]

Does anyone out there know if the Sony Trinitron monitor that is standard
with the S4000 workstation can be used on a Mac or PC?

Bob McCauley

[dnic...@d-and-d.com]

"According to Bob McCauley"

> Does anyone out there know if the Sony Trinitron monitor that is standard
> with the S4000 workstation can be used on a Mac or PC?

That depends in part on the graphics card you have. *if* it can be
configured to produce an 1150x900 image at the proper scan rates, and *if*
it can be configured to provide "sync on green" (the other two BNC
connectors are not used in this particualr monitor, though the ones shipped
with Suns of the same period used a combined sync on the next BNC), then you
should be able to use it -- *once the system has booted to a sufficient
level for the configuration parameters to be in effect. The monitors
usually used with PCs are multi-sync monitors, which adapt to the rate that
the system is feeding them.

I don't really know that the rates on the Mac are, but I do know
that I am happily using a 19" SuperMAC monitor on my S4000DX (it also works
on a Sun, so it is capable of deciding where sync is coming from and
accepting it.

If you were close enough, I would happily swap monitors with you,
just to have the "right" monitor on my system. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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