On Monday 14 April 2003 09:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an Alpha Station 200 with the DEC monitor VRC21-KA. > This monitor uses 5 cable (Red, Green, Blue & 2 sync)
This sounds like old BNC x5 connections. These are coax plugs that latch in by twisting maybe a quarter-turn. I could be wrong, though; Jay Estabrook could probably tell us if I was. > I want to know if it's possible to plug a normal VGA PC's > monitor into the Alpha unit ???? and how ??? ...possibly. I do know that you can connect a normal VGA (15-pin, 3-row DSUB) to a BNC x5 monitor, because I've done so with my Sony monitor (GDM-FW900). It just takes a rather uncommon cable. I don't know if the conversion can go the other way though. OTOH, you may be able to just get a monitor with the BNC x5 inputs. Some higher-end CRTs (like mine) have this, in addition to the more standard 15-pin DSUB VGA input. But this would severely limit your choice of monitors. -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
