Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-26 Thread Ross Alexander via cctalk
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Richard Loken wrote: It is using lots of electricity and making lots of noise while displaying a Motif session in a 19" liquid crystal monitor without a stand... What could be better than this? Using it as an Xterminal for a Rasp Pi? (Hurriedly ducks behind his DEC AXP150

Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-24 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
Displaying that Motif session on a 'real' CRT that takes 1/3 of your desk, weights 50+ lbs and takes around 150W. -pete ... On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > My monster lives! > > After being brought home in a dozen parts, cleaned with Wi

Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > Displaying that Motif session on a 'real' CRT that takes 1/3 of your desk, > > weights 50+ lbs and takes around 150W. > > I had a lovely 21" trinitron CRT here that I sent to the dump last year, > it had sat idle in the storage room for ten years and I needed the space. > That is shameful. My

Re: Alphaserver 4100 - Give my Monster Life!!!!

2017-05-24 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Pete Lancashire wrote: Displaying that Motif session on a 'real' CRT that takes 1/3 of your desk, weights 50+ lbs and takes around 150W. I had a lovely 21" trinitron CRT here that I sent to the dump last year, it had sat idle in the storage room for ten years and I needed