12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
8:56 a.m.
2008/11/11 Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>:
--- On Tue, 11/11/08, Liam Proven <lproven at
gmail.com> wrote:
Not good.
So if it has no monitor & no Sound Box, I'm likely to be stuffed? It
does have a monitor cable, but that's just a standard-ish /style/ D25
or so to similar cable.
Define a "sane price", by the way. That's so insanely variable as to
be meaningless. For some people, no more than ?5 would be reasonable;
for some, no more than ?50, and for some, ?500 might be justifiable.
Assuming that one has a machine - say a mono mk1 25MHz slab - plus
keyboard and mouse, and does not have and can not get a NeXT display,
what do you need to connect a generic monitor and the NeXT keyboard
and mouse to it? Or, for that matter, a Mac keyboard and mouse, 'cos
as I understand it, it's all ADB?
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I *may* soon be acquiring a NeXT slab. Snag is,
while it has
mouse,
keyboard etc., it has no monitor.
Does anyone know about what kind of connector I'd need
to connect a
plain ol' VGA type monitor to it?
I don't yet know if it's a colour or a
mono slab.
The color NeXT monitors connect with a 13w3 connector. I believe that they are fixed
frequency, sync on green. A newer VGA monitor that supports sync-on-green should work with
some connector adapting. But, the monitor is the LEAST of your worries. You see, I have a
color slab too. And a color cube. I also have the keyboard, mouse, color monitor and sound
box. And I've never been able to hook any of it up. I'm missing "the
cable".
NeXT couldn't just put connectors for everything on the back of the computer. No,
that would have been too easy, to useful. For example, there is no keyboard port on the
computer. No power switch either - that's on the keyboard. To connect ANYTHING to the
computer, you need the sound box. This is a wedge shaped black box with a speaker in it -
and the keyboard port. This connects to the computer through "the cable" - a
special, three headed cable that connects to the computer, sound box and monitor.
You need the sound box and this wacky cable. I have been unable to track one down,
I've been looking on and off for a couple years. Never could find one at a sane price.
I once even sat down with the schematics and drew up a diagram of what I thought the cable
should be, so I could build one. But, since there is power in the cable, and I wasn't
100% sure I was right, I never built it. I'd love to find a real cable so I can ohm it
out and determine the connections.
Good luck...