Found one oddball 13w3 cable and it's for trade.

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Mar 20 14:59:41 2001

Its not unusual for SUN to use an odd sync pattern, not compatible with the
"standards" that the PC-market has adopted. With a little fiddling, e.g.
inversion of one or the other of the two sync signals, it may work fine.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Pechter" <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Found one oddball 13w3 cable and it's for trade.


> > >How much do you want for the cable. I've got an IBM P70 monitor
> > >that should work with it and it probably would let me put that on my
> > >Sun Workstation.
> > >
> > >-Bill
> >
> > WARNING: The cable's do not seem to allow you to put a Multisync monitor on
> > a Sun Workstation. At least when I tried I couldn't find a combo that
> > would work. IIRC, their pinout is different.
>
> Interesting...
>
> I'll have to ohm out a couple of 13W3 cables and see what's different.
>
>
>
> --Bill
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