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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote: The connector is a super-high density 60 pin one, identical to those used as serial interfaces on Cisco 2500 series routers. 4 rows of 15 pins each. Here's the info as found in the Indy Workstation Owner's Guide: Pin Description ---------------------------- 7 serial control data 9 serial control clock 12 clock ground 13 clock 22 +12 23 +5 24 -12 27 data (7) ground 28 data (7) 29 data (6) ground 30 data (6) 31 data (3) 32 data (3) ground 33 data (4) 34 data (4) ground 35 data (5) 36 data (5) ground 46 data (0) 47 data (0) ground 48 data (1) 49 data (1) ground 50 data (2) 51 data (2) ground all other pins are marked "reserved". Could somebody use this information to interface this camera to another machine? Maybe. I certainly wouldn't care to. SGI never even used this interface on any of their other machines. I suspect the idea was to use the Indycam with the Indy's built-in ISDN interface so you could get desktop video conferencing straight out of the box. Not even close to ten years old: the Indy was brand new in July 1994. Nifty machine, though. They had a promo when it was first introduced: write us a note on why you want an Indy in 25 words or less, and we'll give away niftily configured Indy systems to our five favourites. I won seventh place and got a letter thanking me for my entry instead. I don't think I kept it although I wish now I had. -- ok r. r e d @ b e a r s . o r g =========================== [ urs longa | vita brevis ]