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- From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: What VGA/SVGA monitors CAN the PB160/180 use?
- Message-ID: <22860@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 18:30:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.223400.15396@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In-reply-to: yhsu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 22:34:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.223400.15396@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> yhsu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yuta Hsu) writes:
-
- > We've all heard that the new PBs can run "some VGA and SVGA monitors"...
- >so what constitutes some? I've been told that Sony and NEC MultiSyncs are the
- >best bets... but I've got a 14" Mitsubishi DiamondScan multisync, and I'm
- >wondering if it'll work. I've seen the video-out cable for the PBs, and it's a
- >15 pin female. Can anyone enlighten me on the subject?
-
- David Ramsey on CI$ said that any modern multisync monitor should
- work. The way you tell it what resoltuion to drive the monitor at is
- by the cable adapter you use; grounding cewrtain pins tells it to use
- 13", 16" or 21" resolution. He said there was a company that makes a
- Mac<->VGA adapter that is switchable between the various resolutions.
-
- Neat.
-
- jas
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