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- From: oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill)
- Subject: Re: Have $8000, what to buy?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.135602.3504@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Originator: oneill@bigmax.ulowell.edu
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- References: <RG.92Aug10111713@nymph.msel.unh.edu> <1992Aug11.004404.21923@panix.com> <MELLON.92Aug11123706@pepper.ncd.com> <1992Aug14.191324.13056@uwm.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:56:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.191324.13056@uwm.edu>, knie2586@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert Joseph Knier) writes:
- |> In article <MELLON.92Aug11123706@pepper.ncd.com> mellon@ncd.com (Ted Lemon) writes:
- |> >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.
- |>
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- We have several MAXines here...the graphics systems are XGA compatible, IBM's
- attempt at defining another graphics standard.
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- No, the R4000 is not available yet...no word on when, as field testing hasn't
- begun...
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