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From: tspencer@eecs.wsu.edu (spencer tim david     - CS250)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Station to Monitor Cable.
Summary: Yes, you can.
Keywords: NeXT monitor cable
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.190023.5637@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 19:00:23 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.175149.21174@albion.utah.edu>
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Reply-To: tspencer@yoda.UUCP (spencer tim david     - CS250)
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Yes, you can use any cable that fits.  DB-19 cables are super-rare
(I couldn't find one in all of Boise!), but you can hack a regular
RS-232 cable to make it work, so long as all the pins are connected.
	You see, when I got my cube first, it was shipped in 3 parts
by the guy who sent it.  I got the cube and monitor soon after he
sent it, but there I was, with that glorious computer, monitor, mouse,
etc, without a monitor cable!!!  Needless to say, I was rather...
interested in getting it going THAT DAY, so I screamed about the Boise
valley, searching for the correct part.  No dice.  In an act of
desparation, I took a hacksaw to the heaviest shielded RS-232 cable I 
could find, cut off the first couple of pins on each end of the cable
after making certain that I cut the same pins off of each side, and
some rudimentary checking to see if all channels were connected.
	I put it on there, and it worked!!!!  It looked pretty ugly
(the cable was this dirty grey and green thing), but I subsisted with
that setup for a good 3 days until the last package arrived.
	So, according to that, I would suppose that there is nothing
really special about those cables.  Hope this helped.  Have fun!

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Tim Spencer:      freshman nobody at WSU,	spencer@bongo.csc.wsu.edu
 I want Ethernet!!  Would we have invaded if	tspencer@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
   their major export was broccoli?		98071079@wsuvm1.BITNET


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