[SunRescue] Monitor Compatability

Clay Mellender rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Feb 28 18:38:14 CST 2001


Lots of old mac's around have BW monitors with 13w3 on one end and HD15
on the other. I think they are generally about3-4 dollars used. I use
them to hook PC monitors to suns. (W/an additional adaptor).

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:06:29PM -0600, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> > Well, looking at the Sun Blade 100 has me sore tempted to replace my trusty
> > IPX. One question that I have is if my older 16" color monitor would work
> > with it. I see that the sun standard resolutions/frequencies are supported
> > by the PGX64 so could I use an adaptor cable to connect the db15 on the Sun
> > Blade 100 to the 13W3 on the monitor?
> > I'd like to keep the monitor "rescued" (see, it's on topic :) until I can
> > afford to buy a new monitor with the Expert3D-Lite card.
> > Thanks,
> > William
> 
> The old monitor will work fine, but you'll need to buy an adapter from
> Sun that will let you plug the 13W3 cable from the monitor into the
> HD15 output on the SB100.
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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