[Tfug] SUN monitors at World Care

[Bowie J. Poag]

The cables that allow these to be used on standard (read: old, now..) PC 
video cards are incredibly rare. Not only is 13W3 long dead, there are 
multiple 13W3 pinouts that vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. 
Simply having a 13W3 to HD15 cable is no guarantee you'll get a picture. 
I should know, I have probably owned every spare Sun 13W3-to-HD15 cable 
in the state of Arizona at some point. I travelled, literally, a 
hundreds of miles, to every possible business you can think of, from 
office supply outfits to copper recycling plants to find them.

The Sun monitors are probably GDM-20E20's, which are rebadged Sony 
Trinitron tubes. Really nice displays, probably the highpoint of 
multisync analog phosphor. Sun says in their specs that they can do a 
max of 1024x768, which is total marketing bullshit.. Not only can they 
do 1024x768, they can do 1152x864, 1280x1024, and even can do 1792x1344 
when pushed. A higher resolution than the 22" widescreen Viewsonic I 
currently use.

Cheers,
Bowie



Dennis McCormick wrote:
> The below comes from Joe Alwine at Tucson's World Care.
>
> "World Care has 10 of 20-inch flat screen CRTs that came in today.
> They are Sun Monitors. They are dated around 2000, but look pretty
> clean. They are big and heavy and sitting outside on pallets. Asking
> price is $10.00 each untested, $15.00 each if I test them and they are
> good! I will be at World Care after 1:00 this Friday and Saturday. Ask
> for Joe for information."
>
> Dennis McCormick
>
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