Comment by nsxwolf

6 months ago

I had a Sun workstation at my first real job, and it had the 21” Trinitron. I’d never seen anything like it.

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timc3  6 months ago

SGI with its screen here, just like in Jurassic park.

There was a Sun on the desk over with lots of SCSI stuff in a nice cabinet.

  • esseph  5 months ago

    I was lucky enough to get access to an SGI Indigo2 IMPACT 10000 in about 97 or 98 due to a fluke auction buy my highschool did on computers at the time. It was amazing. They bought this big lot of Dell PCs and somehow ended up with it.

TylerE  6 months ago

I think the thing people don't appreciate is how good different resolutions looked. Every res was "native". None of that crazy non-integer scaling you get with fixed pixel displays like lcds.

  • pm215  6 months ago

    The older Sun monitors were fixed frequency (not multisync like a typical PC CRT monitor), so you only got one resolution, it couldn't sync to anything else :)

    • alexdbird  5 months ago

      I had a couple of these over the years. I ended up using specialist graphics cards to use them with a PC. The crude scaling built into the cards made old PC games and NES games gloriously blocky, on top of the gorgeous colours and blacks.

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747fulloftapes  6 months ago

I remember those. Absolute monsters. They used a DB13W3 with proper mini coax lines for the RGB signals instead of the VGA HD15.

They weighed a ton, were painful to move and basically consumed the entirety of any desk they were set on.