Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Monitor Help/Red Hat

Ron Ginger wrote:

> Larry Van Duyn wrote:
> >
> > Jon Elson wrote:
> >
> > > Armilite@... wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds like a very old DEC monitor, and NOT multisync.
> >
> > This IS an old DEC monitor and it is indeed a fixed frequency type. You
> > need to have a special video card to drive it. The best thing to do with it
> > is to deposit it in the nearest trash container of suitable size...
>
> Oh, that hurts! I was a DEC product manager in the workstation group
> when that monitor was introduced, and it was a very high quality and
> expensive monitor. The special graphics card was an amazing high
> performance graphics subsystem jointly designed by DEC and Evans and
> Sutherland. It did anti-aliased lines at over 1,000,000 vectors per
> second and solid, shaded images all in hardware. A technical gem, a
> market bust.
>
> But you are right, it is now junk.
>
> One of the things that drives me crazy is old computer stuff- we all
> love those old cast iron machines, and often older is better, but in
> computers older is junk.
>
> ron
> retired after 30 years at DEC
>

Not all old stuff is junk. In CPU's usually....in monitors well maybe...depends on what you paid and how much it is going to cost
you to get it going.

The VR16 DH is:
70 kHz hor.
66 Hz vert.
1280 x 1024
sync on green
Sony GDM-1660
Compatible with the SI GL and C1 fixed freq cards. ( http://www.si87.com)

The VR16-HA is:
77 KHz hor
72 Hz vert
1280 x 1024
Sony GDM-1661
Compatible with the above cards.

You pays your money and takes your chances. There is probably a modeline that will come close for this monitor. Xvidtune takes if
from there. :-)

Dave