12 Apr
2013
12 Apr
'13
11:28 a.m.
On 04/11/2013 05:33 PM, David Riley wrote:
Are they just a straight-through wiring job (in which case does anyone know
the DA15 pinout?) or are they SoG as someone mentioned? I don't think I've
got anything here that'll accept SoG, so that makes things a little more
complex (and there'd perhaps be no gain in building an adapter vs. buying one)
On Apr 11, 2013, at 17:10, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that's the one - and it is indeed a complete nightmare to take apart.
Perhaps it was better when new and the plastics have gone more rigid with age.
I found a Mac Performa 6400/200VEE at the dump
today, but no keyboard
/ rodent / display.
Is that the smooth-cornered minitower? Those things were nightmarish to
take apart, but otherwise ok. > I'll try some vinegar and see how it goes
Well, it cleaned up well enough, at least visually - but there are no signs
of life when the power switch is hit (no PSU fan activity, nothing). I'll
see if I can work out the PSU wiring, as I'm not sure if it needs the
system board present to function, and it'd be nice to verify that the PSU
is working before going any further.
The battery is rated at 4.5V, by the way, not the 3.6V common to a lot of
machines. I assume it's non-rechargeable; can anyone confirm that? (If it's
not then I can easily supply power from 3 AA's just for testing purposes)
1) Is it
possible to wire the 15-pin monitor connector up to a PC's
VGA monitor? Or,
Yes. Adaptors aren't hard to come by, and that generation of Mac should
support DDC codes from modern VGA monitors. The absolute best adaptor to
use, if you can find it, is the Griffin MacPnP adaptor, which has a bank
of DIP switches to set the monitor sense codes (necessary for older,
more finicky Macs) and/or pass the DDC lines through. I have a number of
Mac/VGA adaptors, some of which just pass the sense lines through
verbatim and some of which have the sense code hard wired to what the
manufacturer thought was right (for example, a 1024x768 VGA monitor came
with an adaptor that was hard-wired to declare that it only supported
640x480 and 832x624).
Hmm, I'd assume that in the absence of any DDC info it'll default to some
crappy resolution rather than outputting nothing, surely?
If you need a mouse, I have a few spares of which I
could send one.
Thanks - I'll keep that in mind. Funny how even quite-common stuff such as
this seems to have all but disappeared!
cheers
Jules