piplani@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Piplani) (10/12/88)
A few months ago I posted a request to the net about hooking up a 3'rd party color monitor to my 3020 (my monitor had 'burned' out). I got only one reply that the Multisync XL 19" by NEC had been hooked up to an iris successfully. At the time I was in a hurry and did a 48 hour parts replacement with sgi. It cost me ~$2000. In the last two weeks I've had 2 monitors burn out!!!! I've ordered the NEC monitor from my local computerland for $2500 it comes with a 2 year parts warrenty, 1 year labor (alot better then sgi's warrenty). Then we discovered that the SuperMac 16" color monitor for the macII can be hooked up to an iris. The SuperMac monitor is made by Sony and has part number GBM-1602. We got it for $2400 from a local mac supplier with a 1 year warrenty. Images on the SuperMac really look great! I will probably get one of my iris monitors repaired by sgi -- they have 60 day turn around, 90 day warrenty for $1330 and I'll kept that for a spare. Our 3020's have behaved flawlessly for the 2 years we've had them, the only problems seem to be in the non sgi parts-- the first batch of optical mice burned out in 3 months, and these hitachi monitors have an ~2 year life span. Michael Piplani (607)255-9101 Cornell/HSS Program in Biomechanics