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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by rjzzleep on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:05PM (#30948170)
I still remember buying a dirt cheap SGI monitor back in the day. But it took a while before I figured out how to mod the cable because of sync on green.
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by dylan604 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:44PM (#30948705)
Yeah, component cables with 5 BNCs RGB+Hsync+Vsync. Good times!!
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Re:The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy V... by jeffreygoesto on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:02PM (#30948934)
Fixed Frequency, crafting an X mode line on a cheap 14", no text readable during boot, fingers crossed if X came up ok, if not, swap monitors, boot with "init=/bin/bash" and goto 1...
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