Is there any particular brand or model of (reasonably) modern LCD monitor that works well with various 80s & 90s workstations?

[davefischer@hachyderm.io]

Is there any particular brand or model of (reasonably) modern LCD monitor that works well with various 80s & 90s workstations? (Concerned mostly with Sun, SGI & DEC (VAXstation & Alpha)).

Something with actual RGB / RGBS bnc connectors, in addition to VGA, would be swell.

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[agowa338@chaos.social]

@davefischer Any particular reason you don't just use one of these active converter cables?

[agowa338@chaos.social]

@davefischer like e.g. this one https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07K14NR8P

[davefischer@hachyderm.io]

@mike

Right. That would handle (convert?) weird resolutions and frequencies as well as older connectors?

[choofa@infosec.exchange]

@davefischer that’s a real hard one. the closest is still going to require converters as nothing like the Trinitron/DiamondTron multisyncs exist. The Dell 2407WFP-HC will handle SGI’s sync on green but you’d need a scaler / converter cables for all the oddball 54–69 kHz and 13W3 connectors.

If you want to just use any flat panel you like, scaler/converters rats nest will get you. the gbs-control could do a lot and is customizable as are the retrotink converters. Extron makes boxes that’ll cover a lot of the converting to hdmi but will still require cables. They’re reasonably priced if you find em used. eBay has a lot of those DIP-switch 13W3 adapters.

do industrial / business class plasma TVs count? NEC PlasmaSync, Pioneer and Panasonic have BNC inputs but don’t do sync on green.

sorry for the writing in bed on a phone crap editing.