Spiritus, you wrote: > They are commonly used for the serial output on > contemporary ATX (Wintel) platforms. They were also used at one time for > EGA monitors; I believe you can find some of these still on display in the > Smithsonian. A useful link, with pictures, found after about 2 minutes of > googling, is: > > http://www.techadvice.com/tech/D/db9-connector.htm
Thanks for all this. I should have googled myself. (That should be First Resort.) >From this information I gather that this output cable from the SE/30 was intended to go to an EGA monitor (whatever that is; I'll google for it, though), and that it wouldn't hurt to put the Ethernet card into the SE/30 running this monitor output... Is there any way to convert from DB9 to standard Mac monitor connector? Would this computer run a standard Mac monitor - or a standard Wintel monitor? >I really like your sig. May take to using it occasionally. ;-) The Santayana quote is from "The Unknowable," an impressively written essay you can find in the collection "Obiter Scripta." The first few pages contain some of the most eloquent writing by one philosopher (in this case, Santayana) about another (Herbert Spencer). The rest of the essay is just as well written, but deals with ontology, which can make for tough sledding. Macs are easier than ontology. -- Timothy Virkkala "Science and philosophy cast a net of words into the sea of being, happy in the end if they draw anything out besides the net itself, with some holes in it." - George Santayana /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
