4 Jan
2008
4 Jan
'08
10:42 a.m.
I did see the Sun cable with the 4 BNC on US ebay and thought the
same. I'm not sure if that fourth lead is relevant.
My alternative is to haul an LCD panel down to the Crimson and start
experimenting with various 13W3-VGA adaptors.
Still steamed at myself for giving away cables for equipment I was keeping!
On 1/4/08, Austin Pass <austin at ozpass.co.uk> wrote:
On 4/1/08 16:54, "Jason T" <silent700 at
gmail.com> wrote:
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Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
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Got my SGI Crimson up and running on serial
console, and I've got an
old SGI monitor sitting around, but I guess I gave away all my cables.
Anyone have such a cable in their junk bins? Only ones on ebay now
are from the dealer-gougers.
I use mine with an "ordinary" (i.e. Non-SGI branded) 21" CRT with a
5xBNC-VGA cable. One of the sync leads (H-sync I think) is redundant, of
course.
Suitable items found just now on ebay.co.uk:
270198917710 - 5xBNC-VGA Cable @ ?4.99
280189417939 - 21" Dell CRT Monitor @ ?19.99
Not a bad setup for ?25! Just by way of an example of course - I realise
you're not in Grimsby, UK ;-)
Would the Sun 13W3-BNC leads not work? I know there's a subtle difference
between Sun and SGI monitor cables, can't quite remember what it is. They
seem cheap and plentiful enough:
230206161455 - Sun13W3-4xBNC @ ?7.99.
-Austin.