I have about four PC monitors sitting around waiting to be tried out on my IIfx, as well as an apple multiscan 15. I purchased a radius precisioncolor 24 bit video nubus card over the swaplist and it's here now. i also have myself three different kinds of adaptors to use between the HD-15 terminals and the mac DB-15 terminals. everything is sitting here, waiting to be tried out. and then the question hit me: do i even know if the video cards I have are meant to be used with these kinds of monitors? so i went to the web yesterday and hunted and read, and then hunted some more. nowhere could i find any real answers that satisfied my wanting to know. i got the general idea that monitors and cards are originally designed as a matched pair, but we all know they get separated and mixed, once they get out there in the wild and get parted out from their virgin shipping configurations. each can have many dance partners in its useful lifetime.
so before i go trying mate up the monitors i have, with the three video cards I have, is there anything i need to know first? can I cause any damage to either the cards or the monitors or the computers I am trying them out with, before i go at it?? at the present, it will be tryouts with the mac II 820-0198-C video card, with four different PC monitors and a 10 dipswitch adapter, then on to the radius precisioncolor card, with the same group of monitors and same adapter. my highest hopes are for a sony 17" model CPD-1604s monitor, with the radius precisioncolor card, at 24 bit color, at 1024 x 768 rez. on my IIfx. which i can then hopefully later take onto the web and see some of those eyecandy websites. OK you monitor mavens--what are my chances? and just for mystery and geek intrigue-- we also have a daewoo CMC-1418s monitor, which i can get zero information about, not at monitor world, nor Griffin's site, nor from daewoo itself. the closest one that monitor world had, was an equally obscure entry, for the daewoo CMC-1424s, which they had listed as giving a maximum resolution of-(inhale here)-- 2857 by 2143 pixels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyone know more? so-- do the video cards tie directly to the resolutions a monitor can display? can i hurt one or the other by trying to pair them with a partner too complex or too simple? and- we discussed this before, but now I'm in the actual lab handling the parts myself--is there any easy eyeball way to gauge beforehand, by missing pins-out configuration on the dongles, what the likely dipswitches are likely to be set at, to adapt an HD15 pinout when using a 10 dipswitch adapter? [i do have the legend to refer to, as I try different switch combinations, but i am trying to educate my brain about what represents what] this is janet. being ever the cautious electronics student, seeking to learn from the masters and elder students who have gone before her. http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> 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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
