Stardent 19" workstation monitor

[Bob Shannon]

Do you ever recall seeing a poster that shows the whole surface of
the earth under cloudless skies?

This famous composite photo was produced on a Stellar / Stardent machine.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Stardent 19" workstation monitor


> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 22:52 -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
>> > >From what I understood it had good graphics capability for its time 
>> > >and
>> > was reasonably fast.  I never used it.
>>
>> Understatement.
>>
>> William Donzelli
>
> Hmm, anyone have any images so I know what to look for?  It's *very*
> doubtful we have any kind of CPU box - let alone two, given that we have
> two displays. If it's some faceless metal crate it's just possible
> something's lurking in storage though.
>
> I suspect it's more likely that somewhere along the line someone's
> sourced a couple of the screens from a Stardent setup that was being
> broken up, then used them on something else that we *do* have, and
> they've eventually passed the whole lot onto us. Possibly they were used
> with some of our DEC or Sun stuff...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>