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Multisync/flickerFixer??

    08-Oct-89 19:11:41
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: Brent Anderson 76424,3107
Brent, I bought my Princeton Graphics Ultrasync at SoftWarehouse in Dallas. Their prices are usually comparable to those in Computer Shopper – which is an excellent place to look for prices, etc., and is available at just about every newsstand. I cannot recall the exact price, but it was in the range of $450, as best I can recall. The Zenith was about $200 more at the time, and the NEC about $100 more. This is a 12" version, but it suits me fine. Your work might require a larger one. That Zenith was certainly beautiful, though! The Diamondscan is the Mitsubishi one, but I had the impression that they might be discontinuing it. It could have been that Soft WareHouse was not going to stock it, though. I only know that they were selling out their remaining stock as a closeout recently. The hardware Rick mentioned is truly interesting. The flickerfixer is a full-sized board that takes up the whole video slot. It would really be interesting if they could replace all of that with one chip, wouldn't it? You should also consider that you will probably have to have a special cable for whatever monitor you choose, and that these are usually purchased through Redmond. Most of those cables cost about $30-40, depending on the particular monitor. Some monitors require a chip in the cable itself, making it a bit more expensive. There is a file here in Tech, though, that <continued>