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In article <9850@reed.UUCP> johnw@reed.UUCP (John B. Windberg) writes:
>Greetings,
>	Does anyone have a monitor that would be compatable with an old GIGI?
>You know, that big dusty box in the closet, the one you could pratically
>give away to a wonderful student interested in using his GIGI to study
>color graphics.
>
>Thanks
>
>Please email if you have any hints as to where I might look, The dec
>1-800 sales number didn't help me. They had never heard of a GIGI.

   Hi John,

   I tried e-mailing this but some mailer along the way from Rochester
   to Portland coughed on my message.  Let's hope a posting makes it.

   I, too, have a GIGI in my closet (among other things).  And, it is still
   running (amazing) on a Barco 13" color monitor (even MORE amazing).
   Every now and then I bring it out and hook it up to my Rainbow as a
   remote terminal.

   Anyway, I suppose you're looking for a CHEAP solution.  As you know, the
   resolution of Rainbow and GIGI is close (800x240 vs. 767x240) and the
   VR241 monitor from DEC works fine (in fact, most any RGB monitor will be
   OK - and, if you can find a compatible RS-170 signal (I believe) composite
   monitor, you can run that off a GIGI, too).  Well, if you can find a cheap
   VR241, you should be ok.  If not, try giving IME (International Materials
   Exchange, Inc.) a call at 1-617-497-2290 (located at 33 Agassiz Street,
   Cambridge, MA, 02140).  They were recently selling surplus Hitachi 13"
   color monitors (the guts of a VR241 in a different case - Hitachi makes
   DEC's VR241 monitors) for $199.00.  This monitor is a 640x240, 0.31
   mask pitch monitor that reportedly works well for the DEC Rainbow.

   Anyway, good luck.  If you need help with the GIGI machine itself, I have
   a small library of DEC GIGI documentation (GIGI VK100 Terminal Installa-
   tion and Owner's Manual, GIGI Basic Manual, GIGI Exercisor User Guide,
   and the GIGI/ReGIS Handbook).

>    _ _     Duh!                                 | Outside of a dog, a man's
>  O/.V.\O  /      johnw@reed (John B. Windberg)  | best friend is a good
>  /  ^  \         5353 SE 28th #13               | book; inside a dog it is
>  \__U__/         Portland, Oregon 97202         | too dark to read.
                                                    ^^^^^^^
                                                    A blowtorch usually
                                                    takes care of this.


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