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From: paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: mac LC w/ VGA monitor?
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.185900.11563@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 18:59:00 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.145215.20129@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> djb@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (David Brightbill) writes:
>At Macworld Expo, Scully announced thastandard VGA monitors could be 
>plugged into and work with the new LC'  with a special adapter cable.
>The folks working the apple booth couldn't give me the specs for the
>cable and none of the aftermarket cable vendors at the show had a clue.
>Has anyone actually used a VGA with the LC?  Inquiring minds want to know.


Here is the layman's guide to building a cable to connect the LC to standard
VGA monitors:

For this project you will need
	1 male 15 pin D-SUB connector and hood
	1 female 15 pin high density D-SUB connector and hood
	about 10" of cable (at least 5 conductors)

Get out your soldering iron and connect wires and connectors using the
following map:

	VGA side		Mac Side
       15 pin female	      15 pin male
       high density

	  PIN #	    goes to      PIN #
	   1	--------------->  2
	   2	--------------->  5
	   3	--------------->  9
	   13	--------------->  3
       6,7,8,10	--------------->  1,4,6,11,13

On the VGA side, connect pins 6,7,8, and 10 to each other and take only one
wire to the Mac side.  On the Mac side, connect pins 1,4,6,11, and 13 to each
other and solder the wire from the VGA side to one of the pins.

Put the hoods on and if you did everything right, it should work just fine.
It works good for me.

WARNING:  Do this at your own risk.  I am not responsible for the acuracy
of the above and I am definately not responsible for whatever goes wrong.

One last word:  If you do your shopping from Radio Shack, this thing will
probably cost you about $15.  If you shop from a place like Altex
Altex Electronics it cost you about $6.  
--
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