19 Aug
2014
19 Aug
'14
12:43 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote
about the VR201 monitor:
I would be even more surprised to find a DE15 conenctor on a VR201 (it's
a DA15).
I was talkign about another machine with a similarly asymmetric monitor
cable. In that case it was a VGA montiro wit ha DE15 input. And a machine
with a noraml VGA outptu on a DE15. The problem was the socket on the
monitor had a strange pinout ($deity knwos why) so thecable was
cross-wired with nothing to indicate which way roudn to fit it.
Incidentally, re D conenctors, I've been looking back through some 1960s
electornci cataloges, and they all use the correct terminology (DE9,
DA15, DB25, DC37, DD50). Unlike now.
-tony
After a bit more testign I foudn that the DE15
socket on the monitor was
not the standard VGA pinout.
I assume that you weren't too surprised, since the VR201 predates VGA
by four years.