[Gllug] Hardware giveaway!

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:05:04PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> All free! Give away, not sell!
> 
> The sun monitor is a 17 inch CRT with the sun connection of the time  
> which I've forgotten the name of.

The connection type is called "13W3" and is used on old (1990s)
Sun, SGI and IBM Unix machines. You can get adapters to and from
VGA for about 10 UKP.

The SparcStation and Ultra1 machines will almost certainly use a
graphics card with 13W3 instead of VGA (if they have a graphics
card at all).

If you don't want the expensive or space of a CRT monitor, then
for a basic console you can use a serial cable instead. Though
there used to be a bug where disconnecting the serial cable caused
a BREAK signal which stopped the OS and switched the machine into
PROM mode (equivalent of the BIOS in a PC):
	http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/serial/


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