[net.general] Wanted: Info on Slave Graphics screens

snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) (08/30/85)

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Hello Net,
money-spending time again.
We are looking for slave screens/video projectors for graphics
terminals. Basically we would like something which plugs into
the video output of a DEC VT[1,2]XX (reg.TM) and which will
present a big picture. There are two ways. Either have a real
slave screen or have a sort of projector for TV signals onto a
screen.

This all should tell the casual onlooker that I have already
looked into this matter.

Our problem is really our diverse hardware: we have a Symbolics
Lisp Machine, plenty of DEC and DEC compatible terminals and
two Perqs (by ICL or Perq Systems Corp. depending on which side
of the Atlantic you are on).

At IJCAI my boss actually saw slave screens for Symbolics'
but did not have time to take down the manufacturers name.

Now the real questions:

1- Who makes a system like we need ? We would also like to have
   screen to do 'normal' TV video. Colour is not essential (we
   don't do any colour graphics. We need big screens so that
   lots of people can stang around and gawk.

2- There is a company allegedly called Electrophone who seem
   to make a slave screen for the MAC. Does anyone know
   anything about this or have an address ? Do they make any other
   products like that ?

Thanks for your help. Any replies I will summarise because I
reckon there may be several people out there who are
interested.

Incidentally: I did post a summary re. window managers but I
never saw it on the net so if you have not seen it in
net.followup then please mail me and I will repost.

4 Gigabuckets of Thanks
-- 
  Love,
  Sebastian (Snoopy)

"You haven't done it, till you've done it with pointers"

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