Symbolics 3620 screen issues - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Mar 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk] 
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   console
monitors are very special and very strange things.   Mono screen,
 > some audio stuff in it, keyboard and mouse controller, ... and it is
 > connected to the machine with a single cable. They are completely
 > different from everything else on the world.  
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  That, actually, doesn't mean a darn thing...
 Consider the portrait monitor on my PERQ 2T1. It's got 3 
 physical cables 
 back the host, which actually form 1 'logical cable' -- video 
 (no syncs) 
 : BNC, power : 3 pin DIN, everything else (syncs, 
 keyboard/tablet power 
 and signals, audio, etc) : DA15.  
IIRC, the NeXT mono monitors, which have everything (which I
suggest in this context to mean sound, video, mouse, keyboard)
connected to the monitor through a single 19 pin cable, aren't
otherwise too weird at all... :)

Chris

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