Re: Monitor

2015-04-08 Thread Scott Brant
Near Kansas City MO On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Dylan McDermond dy...@mcdermond.net wrote: On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:50 PM, sbr...@scottbrant.com sbr...@scottbrant.com wrote: Thanks! Does anyone out there have a 68K era monitor they want to sell? Where are you located? - Dylan

Re: Monitor

2015-04-08 Thread Scott Brant
Can you tell me more about the Sony dongle? On Apr 8, 2015, at 5:17 PM, 'Chris Tofu' via Vintage Macs vintage-macs@googlegroups.com wrote: It's not about the size of the monitor, it's about resolution. Many macs can support different resolution, from 640 x 480 up. I do not have any more

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2015-04-08 Thread 'Chris Tofu' via Vintage Macs
It's not about the size of the monitor, it's about resolution. Many macs can support different resolution, from 640 x 480 up. I do not have any more of this data handy unfortunately. You need to, iirc, short certain pins together for it to boot into a certain resolution. There should be a

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2015-04-08 Thread 'Glen' via Vintage Macs
From: Dylan McDermond dy...@mcdermond.net To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 5:07 PM Subject: Re: Monitor On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:50 PM, sbr...@scottbrant.com sbr...@scottbrant.com wrote: Thanks!   Does anyone out there have a 68K era monitor they

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2015-04-08 Thread 'Chris Tofu' via Vintage Macs
all 68020 and up Macs had to have the cable's sense pins configured. I can't say when this became unnecessary. -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is

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2015-04-08 Thread Doug Kiekow
FWIW I use Dell 15” LCDs on a variety of vintage macs. Mostly thru the switched connectors, but on IIsi’s the non switched 640x480 works best. If you need to make your own the Knowledge Base article Macintosh Monitor Sense Codes: Technical Description” describes the sense pins, and how they

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2015-04-08 Thread Doug Kiekow
Never tried a 17”, doubt if the vram i’ve got would support that pixel density. Currently connected: Dell 1505FP to a IIsi, Dell 1505FP to a Quadra 950, Dell E152FPb to a PowerMac 7200. Also have a Dell E152FPb connected to an Apple //gs, but that is through a strange video game-to-monitor

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2015-04-08 Thread sbrant
Thanks! Does anyone out there have a 68K era monitor they want to sell? From: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com [mailto:vintage-macs@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Dady Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:02 PM To: vintage-macs@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Monitor I specifically made

speaking of monitors ... was Re: Monitor

2015-04-08 Thread 'Chris Tofu' via Vintage Macs
If anyone in the NJ area or it's environs has a big (used to be called two page) black and white monitor in good shape I may be interested. The accompanying card would be moocho nice-o too. I have an old HP UX workstation monitor, 98788a, but I have tried hooking it to anything yet. -- --

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2015-04-08 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Apr 8, 2015, at 1:50 PM, sbr...@scottbrant.com sbr...@scottbrant.com wrote: Thanks! Does anyone out there have a 68K era monitor they want to sell? Where are you located? - Dylan -- -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list

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2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Dady
I tried a dell 15 inch and a 17 inch, the 15 inch had a V shaped base and it would just blackscreen and present nag message about mode not supported, the 17 inch (which I still have) has that oval base with the middle cut out, it would just blink no doubt there are a gazillion models of dell

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2015-04-08 Thread Kevin Dady
I specifically made my cable with the appropriate configuration for a 640x480 display, I am unsure if there is a way around it on on 68k mac's ... the only time I used an adapter without jumpers or switches was on beige power pc's -- -- - You received this message because you are a