ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence) (11/04/89)
I would welcome comments or reports on experience with the IBM 8507
monochrome vga monitor. According to IBM's literature, the 8507
display measures 19 inches diagonally, and is capable of 1024x768
addressability with the 8514A graphics adapter, as well as the usual
720x400 (text) and 640x480 (graphics) vga modes.
Ultimately, I'd like to use something like this in the higher
resolution for X-windows under Xenix or SCO Unix, if appropriate
drivers become available. So far, I've never even seen the 8507.
Thanks in advance for any information.
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Ronald Florence ...{hsi,rayssd}!mlfarm!ronphil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai) (11/11/89)
In article <362@mlfarm.UUCP> ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence) writes: |I would welcome comments or reports on experience with the IBM 8507 |monochrome vga monitor. According to IBM's literature, the 8507 |display measures 19 inches diagonally, and is capable of 1024x768 |addressability with the 8514A graphics adapter, as well as the usual |720x400 (text) and 640x480 (graphics) vga modes. I talked to a dealer who advertised it. He said they were no longer recommending it for the 1024x768 mode. Their suggested use was "for teaching purposes" where you want a large screen so more people can see it, not where a large screen is expected to provide high resolution to one person. They were asking around $800 for it. I complained about the large gap in the market for high resolution 16-19 inch monochrome super VGA monitors and they said early next year some new products would be coming out. I haven't personally seen it but would like to some day. There's a company called Sampo in Atlanta which has a 20-inch monochrome 256 shades of gray 1280x960 list price $1,149. I've asked for literature. See the current Computer Shopper for an article. -- Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil Come witness the failure of democracy in California!
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (11/13/89)
In article <362@mlfarm.UUCP> ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence) writes: >I would welcome comments or reports on experience with the IBM 8507 >monochrome vga monitor. >Ultimately, I'd like to use something like this in the higher >resolution for X-windows under Xenix or SCO Unix, if appropriate >drivers become available. So far, I've never even seen the 8507. We use it under AIX PS/2 1.1, running X Windows, along with the 8514A display adapter. Although the "set monitor type" boot prompt of AIX PS/2 has a choice for the 8507, X11 actually doesn't run correctly unless you set it to 8514 (the 16" color display with the same resolution.) Once that is set, X11 seems to work just fine with either monitor. I imagine, like the color 8514, that the 1028x768 display is interlaced. However, I don't seem to be sensitive to flicker. It may be (though I'm not sure) that SCO's support for the 8514/8514A combination would work fine with an 8507/8514A. Perhaps someone at SCO can confirm or deny this. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu