| ▲ | nsxwolf 5 days 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 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | esseph 2 days ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | TylerE 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | pm215 4 days ago | parent [-] | | 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 a day ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | pm215 a day ago | parent [-] | | I used a SparcStation 2 as an X terminal for several years in the late 1990s, having picked it up free as a student. Eventually PC monitors and my budget improved to the point that I retired it, but it was massively better than the cheap 14" CRT I had on my PC at the time. I did have to contribute floating point emulation support to the Linux sparc32 kernel code, as otherwise the X server would occasionally crash when it hit a denormal number in the font rendering... |
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| ▲ | 747fulloftapes 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | esseph 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Humble brag :) |
