[H-GEN] Sparc Stations

[Monica Anthon]

Well, to those interested, the ones that Paul got (2 of which were for me) 
will NOT boot.  It seems that the disks have been trashed, which is not 
that surprising.

I could not get fdisk to run on them.  Eventually called in the big guns 
(one D. Makepeace) who suggested that maybe the machines had been turned 
off half way through a low level disk format.  Paul is going to try a low 
level format from his PC ( we only have SCSI on our server at work and it 
was still busy about midnight).

Seems to me like they should make reasonable gateway machines.

Re driving the monitors from a PC, looks to me like that circuit could 
easily be done with a single chippie.....using a quad XOR package .

	NOT ( VS XOR HS ) = (( VS XOR HS ) XOR TRUE )

Or am I mistaken?  Use a 74HC series if speed/drive capability is an issue, 
which I don't think it would be.  Does anyone know of a source for the 13W3 
connectors, preferably PCB mount ?

I'm tired and my arms hurt from carrying these damn things around !!!

Regards
Michael (who's wife didn't log out again) Anthon


On Tuesday, 7 April 1998 15:18, Nickolas Kwiatkowski 
[SMTP:nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au] wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> > Are they running SunOS now?
> >
> > I am interrested in the quality (dirty,clean,etc)
> > And if they monitor really was 17"
> > Cheers,
> > 	-Robert
> >
>
> If they are 17" Monitors, they would be similar/same as identical to the
> 17" Monitor that Chris, someone and myself brought from Plugged-in.
>
> They work very well at 1152x900 ;)
>
> I have started a loose guide to build an adaptor to run these from a PC,
> and with the aid (comments) from Chris, it should be fairly straight
> forward. It is derived from a spec from;
>
> http://cvs.anu.edu.au:80/monitorconversion/
>
> so look at;
>
> http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~nickolas/Monitor/Monitor.html
>
> the adaptors from the US were _way_ to expensive (freight charge) to get
> just one or two.
>
> Nik
>
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