On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
> I'm heading home just now so when I get there I'll send along the
> incomplete pinout that SGI let out.
>
The connector is a super-high density 60 pin one, identical to those
used as serial interfaces on Cisco 2500 series routers. 4 rows of 15 pins
each.
Here's the info as found in the Indy Workstation Owner's Guide:
Pin Description
----------------------------
7 serial control data
9 serial control clock
12 clock ground
13 clock
22 +12
23 +5
24 -12
27 data (7) ground
28 data (7)
29 data (6) ground
30 data (6)
31 data (3)
32 data (3) ground
33 data (4)
34 data (4) ground
35 data (5)
36 data (5) ground
46 data (0)
47 data (0) ground
48 data (1)
49 data (1) ground
50 data (2)
51 data (2) ground
all other pins are marked "reserved".
Could somebody use this information to interface this camera to another
machine? Maybe. I certainly wouldn't care to. SGI never even used this
interface on any of their other machines. I suspect the idea was to use
the Indycam with the Indy's built-in ISDN interface so you could get
desktop video conferencing straight out of the box.
Not even close to ten years old: the Indy was brand new in July 1994.
Nifty machine, though. They had a promo when it was first introduced:
write us a note on why you want an Indy in 25 words or less, and we'll
give away niftily configured Indy systems to our five favourites. I won
seventh place and got a letter thanking me for my entry instead. I don't
think I kept it although I wish now I had.
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