No problem, Randy. All I'd wanted to do was warn you and any other readers that the described cable wouldn't work and might actually damage the DVI or M100.
I hadn't expected the long discussion that followed and was afraid that maybe the warning got lost somewhere along the way. Hope you and Brian both get yours working! m ----- Original Message ----- From: Randall Kindig To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [M100] DVI cable Thanks, Mike. I apologize for not recognizing all the work you’ve done on this. Thank you so much for your help. I really want to have a working DVI unit for my M100. Randy On Oct 27, 2017, at 7:14 AM, Mike Stein <[email protected]> wrote: Randy, just in case you missed it in all this, the cable that Brian from Missouri described here and on his Wiki and that we've argued about for the last week or so was incorrect; hopefully it would not damage the DVI or the M100 but connecting outputs to outputs instead of inputs is generally a bad idea and the fact that his DVI doesn't seem to work any more is suspicious. To his credit, I see that he's finally corrected the Wiki last night. Whew. m ----- Original Message ----- From: Randall Kindig To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [M100] DVI cable Brian, thank you so much for all the detailed information. It’s much appreciated that you took the time to document what you did. It’s great when members of these groups freely share information and are happy to help others. I’m hoping Ian Mavric will take this information and create a working cable. Randy Kindig host Floppy Days Podcast floppydays.com On Oct 26, 2017, at 4:48 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: I just recieved this new info from a member on the facebook group. http://tandy.wiki/Disk/Video_Interface#Work_in_progress... This cable looks home-made too, but he claims he knows it works and has used it himself. Since he not only used the numbers but also a clear picture and description of plain physical location, there is no ambiguity about it. Randy: THIS would seem to be the answer to your question finally. You can duplicate this guys cable using the same parts I linked to on that same wiki page. But ignore my tentative directions and pictures and go by Ted Saari's. (I'll update my directions and pics when I have actually verified it for myself, until then I'll just leave the "not yet verified, see below" note on mine. But it looks like this is what it's going to end up being.) It flies in the face of what I said so far! :) His cable has twists in it, so that tells me that his DIP connector is pinned the same as mine, because I will have to make twists like that too, in order to get the pinout he describes. The first cable I made was actually like that, and didn't boot either, but I convinced myself it was because the twists were wrong and I cut the end off that cable and scrapped it. So, I predict I still won't get my DVI working even after I duplicate this supposedly known-good example. I have another DVI on the way in, so maybe that one will work. Glad I ordered 10 dip connectors instead of 1! -- bkw
