The fixed frequency nature of these monitors made them a bit more
complicated to work with. There was a company called "Microfield
Graphics" that built a display card that really made these monitors look
nice. As I recall they had windows 3.1 and some Unix drivers for them.
Very sharp for the day.
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Hillsboro, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> The GDM 1950 I used to have is a fixed-frequency, 1280x1024-formatted 20"
> monitor. There was a GDM 1952 that was a smaller version but the 1950 with
> which I once got quite familiar was a 20", VERY sharp, VERY well converged, VERY
> linear, and VERY bright, not to mention VERY heavy, monitor that used BNC
> inputs.
>
> I bought an adapter board from PHOTON for it for what turned out to be more than
> what the package was worth, though it was a real pleasure using a large format
> monitor. (... now they're all 20" or so, since I'm at middle age and going
> blind, like most of my contemporaries ...) The video bios was incompatible
> with some rather important functions, i.e. it interfered with "floppy-tape"
> backup software, so it was quickly phased out. Subsequent efforts to get a BIOS
> suitable for use with a different monitor were unsuccessful, so the adapter ( a
> VLB type so not of much use today) is not being used if someone wants to wrestle
> with the details.
>
> A couple of days ago I was at Costco and noticed that 20" (actually 18". but 20"
> by today's marketing) multisync monitors, with flat screen, etc, and claiming to
> be capable of 1600x1200 pixels are selling at around $250. That certainly puts
> a cap on what one would invest in terms of hauling, repair effort, interfacing
> hardware, etc.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Courtney" <leec_at_slip.net>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 8:59 AM
> Subject: Free - 17" Sun Sony Tinitron Monitor but....
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Lee Courtney
> > President
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 13:32:04 BST