DEC Cable?

From: Russell Pavlicek <rcpavlicek_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Dec 18 00:07:24 2001

Yeah, that's it.

It's color video out connected to a monochrome monitor
by using only the Green line.

-- R


--- Michael Kukat <michael_at_unixiron.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Russell Pavlicek wrote:
> > Michael's reply is not entirely correct.
> >
> > I have access to a VS3100 which is connected to a
> > non-color monitor using an RGB cable. It uses the
> > Green lead as I recall.
>
> Then either the cable or the VAXstation is modified.
> Or it has a color
> framebuffer on a mono monitor, which also works this
> way. But it is absolutely
> impossible to get the signal from the monochrome
> onboard framebuffer out of the
> green signal wire without hardware modification.
>
> ...Michael
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