Toronto store for Sun -> VGA adapter?

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Mike Kirk wrote:

> I recently bought a Sun Ultra 10 used with Gentoo installed. I'd like to use
> it with a PC monitor, but I can't find any stores in my area that stock the
> adapter I need (http://www.computerplug.com/adapter_13w3vga1.htm). I'm

Hi Mike.  Your Ultra 10 has a 13W3?  Every Ultra 10 (or Ultra 5 [1]) I've
ever seen uses VGA out.  Are you sure this isn't a SpaceStation 10 (SS10)?
Sun dropped 13W3 in preference to VGA long ago.

In any case, why not use a serial console and remote display [2] all your
data from the Sun box to a display running on a PC Linux box (normally the
console although it is not necessary).

[1] Including the one I just looked at.

[2] Using the X protocol.  It's capabilities seem to be poorly understood
even in Unix circles these days :(

Rob

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