(sounds like a stevie wonder song, "r-g-b...and l-c-d..." (ugg, clearly
I've
had too much coffee).
I have an old computer from the '80s and it has a frame buffer with
RGB+S (sync) output on classic BNC connectors.
Back in the day I'd go find a suitable (unbearably heavy) RGB monitor and
4 coax cables and connect the two.
But I find myself without any RBG monitors these days. But I do have a
bunch of new-ish LCD monitors which seem quite happy to sync up to
pretty much anything.
So, can I just (somehow) connect the RBG+S signals to a mondern LCD?
Has anyone tried this?
I haven't even thought about it electrically so this may be thinking out
loud. Most of these lcd monitors seem to have VGA signals. I did once
have a DW13 to RBG/BNC connector. And I think I have a DW13 to VGA
adapter... Is that the right way to go?
I don't know anything about the frame buffer in this thing. I suspect
it's some sort of 640x480x8 device. I can do some digging. (it's a
Symbolics 3630 lisp machine in case you are wondering, a so called
"g-machine", where they put the original 3600 into a small number of
FPGAs).
Not rgb+s, but I hooked up my ATW800 with Sync-on-Green to my NEC
LCD ... The ATW800 has BNC connectors, and I just hacked a VGA cable
and put connectors on it ....
The result: It has a gorgeous picture, looks great and would be perfetly usable
except for the large white box covering the middle of the screen that you can't
get rid of no-how which says "OUT OF RANGE".
Regards,
Dave
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