11 May
2006
11 May
'06
11:28 a.m.
Gerhard Lenerz wrote:
There are a bunch of connectors on the rear. One, I am told, is
for a camera. Another RCA jack I assume is RS-170 (?) out.
Another 4 pin mini-circular DIN is perhaps "camera control"?
Aside from audio in, out, mic and headphones, there is something
that appears (from the icon) to be "bidirectional audio"?
And, an intriguing connector that suggests control for LCD glasses??
I assume the AUI connector shares the same network I/F as the
RJ45?
Hello Don,
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 4:20:20 PM, you wrote:
A large card ("Newport Graphics"?) but appears that 4 RAMs (?)
were not populated at initial manufacture (which suggests it
is a lower-end card?)
I can't see any need (for *me*) for a second
NIC -- at least
not in *this* box. And, I can probably dangle an external
CD, disk, etc. off the internal SCSI (via the HD50 connector
on the back).
no real problems to be expected with that.
Is it safe to assume that the "built
in" video is "good enough"?
Depends. Assuming there is one large daughtercard installed towards
the back of the machine and it *has* the two connectors on top (as
shown in the picture) then it is either 24bit or 8bit XL graphics
which is in any case pretty nice for 2D, but does not really do 3D in
hardware. 8bit graphics isn't all too bad on SGIs unless you really
need a lot of color. Or, to get
"good" video (wasn't SGI *known* for "good video"?) do I
need to add something?
Talking of video I was thinking of for example S-Video / Composite
Video In/Out for some more advance capturing and stuff like that.