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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: question on monitors for the amiga
Keywords: Sun monitor
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Date: 8 Aug 90 23:37:24 GMT
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In <38966@cci632.UUCP>, cm@cci632.UUCP (Carl Mercer) writes:
>I have a question that I hope someone can answer for me.  I own a
>Sun 386i with a 14' color monitor.  I want to get an Amiga and was 
>wondering if it is possible to hook up the Sun monitor (I think it's a Sony)
>to the Amiga.  I talked to an Amiga dealer in my area and he said I need
>to find out what speed the sun monitor can be dirven at since the
>Amiga drives monitors at 15.75 Khz.  has anyone ever tried something like
>this?  Is there other problems I need to worry about?  I would welcome
>any information.

Don't think you can do it. The Sun monitors have a vertical rate of 66 Hz, and
a horizontal rate of around 51 KHz.

-larry

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