Well, I do have a BNC male-male adapter, and some BNC cable. That
should suffice as an extension. Safer than a soldering iron... ;-)
Thanks for the link...
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Michael Kukat [mailto:michael_at_unixiron.org]
! Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:52 PM
! To: David Woyciesjes
! Cc: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org (E-mail); NetBSD/Vax Mail List (E-mail)
! Subject: Re: DEC Cable?
!
!
! Hello,
!
! On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
! > I've got two cables here, DEC p/n BCC17-06 and one with
! out a p/n,
! > but looks like a DEC cable. Any ideas who/what they're for?
! And can one of
! > them replace the mono video cable on my VAX Station 3100 (BC23K-03)?
!
! I don't know these cables, but as both are RGB cables, none
! of them can replace
! a mono cable. Also look at
http://www.bsdfans.org/pinouts.php
! for the full
! pinout of those connectors.
!
! And additionally, DEC changed the pinout somewhen for the
! DECstations and DEC
! (Alpha) machines, maybe even VAXstation 4000 has a different
! pinout (do they
! have the 15pin connector? Don't know now).
!
! Best way would be to take a soldering iron and make the cable
! yourself. The
! other way would be a small bridge between the mono and the
! green pin to get
! the cable doing mono on the green wire. But this is a
! modification to your
! holy VAXstation, and you don't really want to do this :)
!
! And then, there is still the problem with the pinout
! difference between
! DECstations and VAXstaions. So, as your VAXstation has own
! keyboard/mouse
! connectors, a simple mono video cable would be the best.
!
! ...Michael
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