Re: Monitor Adaptors

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 01:51:56 +0000 (UTC)

In article <blv9vu$nqp$1@pc.tampabay.rr.com>,
Hactar <ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.com.unmunge> wrote:
>In article <blv3ur$jju$1@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
>Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting an old PC, an HP Kayak, for a Linux box, and I want to use a
>> single monitor with both that and my older Mac. But the Mac and the
>> monitor have 9 pin connectors
>
>I think it's 15, 8+7.
>
>> and the HP has a 15 pin VGA port. I have a switchbox with female VGA
>> ports. So I'm trying to find cables and adaptors.
>
>I went the other way, hooking a PC-style Sony Trinitron to my Mac, and at the
>time, I had to have an adapter custom-made. It's a short cable, ~6" long,
>cost about $25 in 1994 or so. Pre-made adapters weren't widely available at
>that time (they are now),

I've managed to solve my own problem with http://www.questsuperstore.com.
They have adapters that go both ways.

I realized it's probably unlikely the gender changer would work, too,
unless the connections from one pin to another are equivalent under
parity. I found some pinouts, so I could probably build my own from Radio
Shack parts if I had to. But Quest has them for $2.31 plus shipping,
which is way cheaper and easier than the build-it-myself route.

I picked up a book from the library tonight. Turns out the 9-pin
connectors appeared during the early transition from EGA to VGA, and
caused many problems because they were easy to mistake for EGA connectors.
And then apparantly they stopped doing nine pins. 

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