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From: merlin@smu.edu (David Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: PC Multisync monitors on a Sun
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 4 Oct 89 15:14:07 GMT
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I have two Sun-3 systems with broken color monitors.  They need new
flyback transformers (about $180 each), but Sun refuses to sell the
necessary part.  They will repair the monitors, though, for only $1500
each.

I refuse to pay such extortion.  I've been fighting Sun on this for a year
now, and I'm giving up on them.  I would like to find some other way to
get my machines back into service.  I'm thinking of using a PC multi-sync
type monitor on the Suns.  Has anyone tried this?  What monitors will, or
won't, work?

Thanks for whatever help you can give,

David Hayes	School of Engineering	Southern Methodist University
merlin@smu.edu	uunet!smu!merlin
"Argue for your limitation, and, sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach