Symbolics 3620 screen issues

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Mar 25 10:35:13 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]

> > console monitors are very special and very strange things.
> Mono screen,
> > some audio stuff in it, keyboard and mouse controller, ... and it is
> > connected to the machine with a single cable. They are completely
> > different from everything else on the world.

> That, actually, doesn't mean a darn thing...
> Consider the portrait monitor on my PERQ 2T1. It's got 3
> physical cables
> back the host, which actually form 1 'logical cable' -- video
> (no syncs)
> : BNC, power : 3 pin DIN, everything else (syncs,
> keyboard/tablet power
> and signals, audio, etc) : DA15.

IIRC, the NeXT mono monitors, which have everything (which I
suggest in this context to mean sound, video, mouse, keyboard)
connected to the monitor through a single 19 pin cable, aren't
otherwise too weird at all... :)

Chris

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