Free - 17" Sun Sony Tinitron Monitor but....

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Tue Mar 27 02:41:10 2001

> 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
Received on Tue Mar 27 2001 - 02:41:10 BST