15 Feb
2003
15 Feb
'03
8:14 a.m.
Ok, so I need one of those three headed cables. Would it possible to
add that 19 pin connector into the 13W3 cable that I got with the
computer? If I could find the pinouts of that cable, it shouldn't be
hard to just cut the 13W3 cable and solder in a length of cable with a
DB-19 on it.
Ian Primus
ian_primus(a)yahoo.com
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 05:00 PM, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Ian Primus wrote:
I recently accquired a NeXTStation Color,
complete with color monitor
and DSP box. Unfortunately, I don't have the cable to go from the
NeXTStation to the DSP box, and therefore, I can't use the computer
because the keyboard also connects to the DSP box.
What you have is the sound box, and it doesn't connect to the DSP port.
from searching the internet, I have found things
such as this
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/nextcolor/monitor_cable.jpg
that
show a three headed cable that would connect the monitor to the
computer, and to the back of the sound box.
That's the cable you need.
But then what would the DSP port be used for?
Whatever you like. I have a Quix Daydream plugged into my mono
NeXTstation.
And how would the computer get the signals from
the
keyboard? I'm new to NeXT hardware, so any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!
Through the 19-pin end of the cable, that plugs into the monitor port
on
the back of the NeXT.
The original NeXT design specified the "soundbox" built into the
monitor.
All mono monitors for NeXT have it. The system provided keyboard and
mouse
signals, audio signals, video signals, and power for the monitor on
that
one cable, and it was split up inside the monitor.
When NeXT introduced systems capable of color graphics, they pulled
that
circuitry out of the monitor and put it in a separate box.
You need the three-way cable. Some soundboxes had ADB (yes, like on
a Mac) instead of the traditional NeXT keyboard/mouse interface.
ok
r.