Subject: Re: LCD question From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:19:08 -0400 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> On Friday 11 August 2006 02:35 pm, Evan Koblentz wrote: I knew that, I have several of them on hand here. And that's the *only* computer I've ever seen that had that name on it. And it was semi-proprietary in terms of the way it was built, no way was I gonna bother with messing with it... > -----Original Message----- > From: Roy J. Tellason [mailto:rtellason at verizon.net] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:53 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: LCD question > > Some time back, I pulled apart a fairly trashed XT-class computer and one > of the things I got out of it was an LCD, most of it appearing to be > fairly standard stuff and I don't think that I'm going to have a lot of > trouble with that but then there's that other connector... > > Two pins, and both wires are the same color. > > It's been suggested to me that perhaps this is for an EL backlight. Any of > you folks know of how I might go about testing that, so I can get some > idea of what's actually in there? > > Anybody by any chance know of this display? > > Oh, and if it helps any the brand name on the box was "Western Digital", > which is the only time I've ever seen that brand name on a computer.

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