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- From: knie2586@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert Joseph Knier)
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.191324.13056@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:13:24 GMT
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- In article <MELLON.92Aug11123706@pepper.ncd.com> mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
- >
- >>Maybe a Personal DECstation, a.k.a "maxine". Nice open bus, decent graphics,
- >>R3000 upgradeable to R4000, and fairly cheap. I think it has ISDN on the
- >>motherboard, too, but I'm not sure. It's got sound, too. I'm not too fond of
- >>DEC these days but the machine itself isn't too shabby.
- >
- >The R4000 upgrade isn't available yet, to the best of my knowledge.
- >I wouldn't count on being able to get it until it ships. The
- >graphics are okay, but don't get the standard DEC monitor - it's an
- >utter piece of crap. The good news is that I think it's VGA or SVGA
- >compatible (maybe some DEC person can verify this?), so you should be
- >able to get a good one that will work.
-
-
- I am not from DEC but the company I work for has R4000 and
- wanted to use the monitors for SVGA cards on PC's. After calling
- DEC, they told me they knew nothing at all about the monitors. They
- just bought them from Zenith (and would send them out for repairs).
- So, I called Zenith and asked them the above question. The answer
- was that the horiztonal scan frequency was to high. The people at
- Zenith seemed to be surprized at the question and said it would
- be quite difficult.
-
-
- Bob Knier
- (knie2586@csd4.csd.uwm.edu)
-