Date: Mon, 18 Dec 89 09:42:12 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V2 #29 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 18 Dec 89 Volume 2 : Issue 29 Today's Topics: Connecting 2/120's with thicknet boards Sun 2/120 monitors *** This will be the last SaH digest of 1989. The next digest will *** *** come out in January. Happy Holidays! --ddm *** +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 00:28:59 EST From: dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Subject: Connecting 2/120's with thicknet boards To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I have a couple of ethernet boards I'd like to play around with. They are 15 pin (thicknet) type boards. I've heard several horror stories about what I'd need to buy to connect the machines using these boards ($200 tranceivers, drop cables, ...). What I'd like to do is get a thicknet bus and drop cables and connect them that way. What is the cheapest way to connect the machines using ethernet? BTW: I'm still looking for a SCSI board(s) for the 2/120 -Dan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 89 00:23:46 EST From: dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) Subject: Sun 2/120 monitors To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Did Sun distribute monitors with different scan rates with machines in the 2/120 series (if scan rates isn't what I mean, forgive me. I really have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to video hardware)? I have 2 monitors and 2 2/120's which have the same video board (1003) but they don't work properly when I swap monitors. The video has many diagonal lines through it. I haven't compared switch settings and jumpers on the two boards but I suspect that is the difference. If someone could tell me what the difference between the monitors is I would appreciate it. I also have a 1052? board (no dip switches) which doesn't seem to work with either monitor. The edges of the screen are verticle (as opposed to the above scenario where the edges had "peaks" (like an oscilloscope hooked up to a capacitor) but the text was completely garbled (in a way that looked like a sync problem). If anyone has any ideas about how I can get the 1052 to work... And to top it off, one of the monitors is wavy on the edges. Is this just something that happens when the tube gets old and has no cheap cure or is there a "knob" I can turn inside the beast to adjust this? Thanks, Dan Muntz (dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu) ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************