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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Plug VGA monitor into a MAC...
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.08da@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 08:37:36 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Wed 9 Sep 92 5:00, Svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu wrote:
-
- S> I was wondering if I could plug my SuperVGA monitor into a Mac
- S> IIci with (I guess -- this is a friends Mac) a standard video
- S> card. I've heard that there is an adapter between the IBM
- S> hi-density 15 pin shell and the lo-density 15 pin on the Mac.
-
- S> If someone could tell me where I could get one of these adapters
- S> or if someone could tell me the pinouts on the Mac side or
- S> something so I could interface the monitor the help would be
- S> very appreciated.
-
- S> svaldez@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
-
- The September '92 issue of Computer Shopper (page 777) has a complete
- discussion of attaching VGA monitors to Macs, including what works, what
- doesn't, why, and how to build your own cable. The Mac II series is much
- fussier than the LC series about the type of VGA monitor it will work with.
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