[Tfug] SUN monitors at World Care

[Marco Savo]

Well, I took one. Tested, plus the normal monitor cable 16 $. They have a
lot of other monitor and stuff, but is not shown to the public. They didn't
know what I was talking about when I asked for "Sun Monitors". Near there
there is "Pima Computers Recycle", with other stuff.
This monitor is huge, heavy, probably need a lot of electricity, but for now
I'm happy with it. I'd like to use it for my mini-itx boards, if I find the
way to attach to it...
I attached it to my Dell laptop with Ubuntu 8.04, works fine but by default
I have only 800x600, I have to find the way to fix it.
Anyway, you don't need any special adapter for it...

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> 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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