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> On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 06:07:56PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Josef Grosch wrote:
> >> Sun monitors are _DAMED_ expensive. I have yet to see one for under
> >> $1500.00. I will most likely end up running mine headless.
> >
> > New ones may be rather expensive but I've seen no shortage of cheap
> > used sun
> > monitors.
> 
> In any case, you can use most good multisync monitors.  I have a 17"
> monochrome Sun monitor, but I connect my SS2 to the same monitor I
> connect my PC to (a 21" iiyama, but that's not important).

Spot on.  With an appropriate cable, any halfway-decent PC monitor will 
handle all of the standard Sun video modes.

mike