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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Sony 1304S monitor--less than $600?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.222025.12367@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 22:20:25 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Aug17.170728.42409@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <John_Shepardson.esh-210892103817@moose.slac.stanford.edu> <BtCL97.EFH@hpbs654.boi.hp.com>
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- In article <BtCL97.EFH@hpbs654.boi.hp.com> kmarko@hpbs654.boi.hp.com (Kurt Marko) writes:
- >In article <John_Shepardson.esh-210892103817@moose.slac.stanford.edu> John_Shepardson.esh@qmail.slac.stanford.edu (John Shepardson) writes:
- >>I found something really cool about my Sony 1304 monitor last week. I
- >>plugged it into a 16" card, and the monitor synched to the 16" mode!
- >
- >I've been using a 1304 off of the Quadra's internal video set to 16"
- >(832x608, or whatever it is) for quite a while now...works like a
- >champ. You do need the `magic cable' to fake the Quadra into high-res
- >mode however (does anyone else hate this...I mean, why couldn't they
- >have put a switch on the back of the machine next to the video out
- >port?).
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- I'm pretty sure the switch can be done in software-- dynamically,
- even. I don't know of anyone who makes a utility for doing so.
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