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Lulu of the lotus-eaters (quilty@titan.oit.umass.edu) wrote:
: I have this big beautiful monitor which I, unfortunately, cannot use with 
: my new laptop.  The monitor is color, has a good picture (Trinitron 
: tube), but is *fixed frequency*.  The sync frequency for all modes is 
: 60Hz.  That's not as high as many monitors use nowadays, but I have not 
: experienced any flicker on the monitor.  You might be able to use this 
: monitor with any old graphic card which has accurate timing controls (my 
: laptop doesn't manage even when I set the timings to 60Hz, YMMV).  
: However, I use the monitor with a specialized fixed frequency controller, 
: which is called a 'Photon Torpedo' and is based on Cirrus Logic's 5434 
: chip (a decent 64-bit accelerator).   I got the monitor/card from an 
: outfit called Hi-Tech:  my card is the VESA version, though you can 
: probably still obtain the ISA or PCI cards from them if you want.
: 
: What I'd like to sell the card/monitor combo for is $700.  If you want 
: just the monitor, I can keep the card for use with other (i.e. multisync) 
: monitors, and sell it for less.  I'd really prefer to sell to someone who 
: can come pick it up in Greenfield MA.  It's a very big, very heavy, and 
: fairly fragile item... as is any 20" monitor.  I could ship it insured, 
: but I'd rather not ship it at all if possible.
: 
: Yours, David Mertz
: wk.413-773-5539 
: hm.413-863-4642
: quilty@philos.umass.edu
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These monitors you can buy for $300, because nobody can use them 
properly. They should work with any decent controller that sync properly 
at 60MHz.

Raymond Horvath
rajmund@oitunix.oit.umass.edu