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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Judson)
>Subject: Re: Sun monitor
>Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:24:23 -0500 (CDT)
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>Thanks to all who replied. I realized that actually the # M19P 114A/6124 is
>the Philips OEM #. The Sun model # is something like 365-1016-01. Could be
>-1075- or -1078- or something.
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>The critical thing to find out 1st (besides: does it work?) is what sort of
>resolution & scan rate it will support.
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>Sun.com was no help -- all they want to do is sell you new stuff. But I will
>look there more carefully, if I can. Monitorworld doesn't seem to know that
>model #, if indeed I got it right (the label was rather scratched.)
>
>I do know that it is grayscale (I can't see any color rasters when I look
>real close at the screen), & that the back has a 9-pin port. Is this a 13W3?
>It doesn't have all the pins in it. If I were an expert on Sun systems, I
>could probably tell what sort of resolutions it supports from which sense
>pins are present. If I'm lucky, it will turn out to be an (early?)
>multi-scan. But since it's from circa 1988 (as per the label), I won't lay
>any bets on it.
>
/me dusts off Sun hat...
The 9-pin port is a dead give-away that it is a monochrome (not
grayscale) Sun monitor. A color one would have either 4 or 5 BNC
connectors or a 13W3 (about the size of a Mac SCSI port, but with 3 huge
sockets in the middle).
That said, there is little likelyhood of getting it to work with a Mac.
Quoting from the Sun Hardware Reference, part 5 (http://www.sunhelp.org):
Monitor standards
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TTL MONO
These are used with very early Sun-2 monochrome video cards. Digital
signals. DB9 connectors.
ECL/TTL MONO
Only the video signals are ECL level; the sync signals are still TTL
level. Digital signals. DB9 connectors.
These are used with later Sun-2 monochrome video cards, Sun-3
monochrome video, and Sun-4 monochrome video; probably Sun-386i
monochrome video as well. They connect to the video system via a DB-9.
The pinout of the DB-9 (on the video system) is:
1 VIDEO+ 6 VIDEO-
3 HSYNC 7 GND
4 VSYNC 8 GND
9 GND
There are two standard resolutions, 1152 by 900 (normal) and 1600 by
1280 (high). Until recently, the standard scanning frequencies for
normal resolution were 61.8KHz horizontal and 66Hz vertical. The
standard scanning frequencies for high resolution are 89.3KHz
horizontal, 67Hz vertical.
You probably have an ECL/TTL monitor. I strongly doubt that anyone made
video cards to connect one to a Mac.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
<<<John>>>
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