Chris M wrote:
I don't see any reason why that 25 pin
connection
couldn't be adapted to work with say an early
Multisync.
...except that, in my experience, finding old Multisyncs are just as
difficult as finding the original AT&T PC 6300 monitors that go with the
machine. Both have similar frequency on ebay, anyway :)
a good while back, which IIRC was in effect a pinout
of that connector. In reading Nuts and Volts over the
years that particular PC (and it's weird video
connector) came up at least twice, indicating perhaps
it was popular amongst hams and such.
It was offered to AT&T and Bell Labs employees at a very nice discount
(almost half) so that's how I got one (father was AT&T employee) and
that's how I saw a LOT of them at garage sales 5-10 years ago (I live in
Naperville, home of one of the Lucent campuses). I think it's not
entirely coincidence that a lot of HAMs are/were Bell Labs employees...
I'm currently a Lucent employee, and I see AT&T 6386s by the trash heap
about twice a year (386sx-16 machines, with the same AT&T 640x400
graphics modes, and also VGA).
Some quick google and usenet searches shows the following very useful
tidbits:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc/msg/085b7157cd54e203?dmode=s…
http://www.electrocution.com/computing/postcodes/olivetti.asp#M24
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.att/msg/20371ba07623d7da?dmode=sour…
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware/msg/a2c678e836b1f7a…
http://groups.google.com/group/net.micro.pc/msg/35809a1c9856be26?dmode=sour…
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video/msg/81abf3496…
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.att/msg/41bf0d39f4314f34?dmode=sour…
Lots of good info there.
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