gchunt@hellgate.utah.edu (Galen Hunt) (02/21/91)
Is there anything special about the station-to-monitor cable? The cable the NeXT ships with the NeXTstation isn't long enough for my needs so I called them this morning about getting a six foot long cable like comes with the cube and they wanted $80 plus shipping. The Nextconnection didn't have this table of cable. What I want to know is if I can just get a couple of DB-19 male connectors and six feet of "regular" insulated cable and make my own station-to-monitor cable. Is there anything that would make this less impractical? Any suggestions are greatly welcome! Galen -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Galen C. Hunt gchunt@sunset.utah.edu Disclaimer: I don't even take credit for what I say so why should anyone else??
hess@greatwhite.cs.indiana.edu (Caleb Hess) (02/21/91)
In article <1991Feb20.175149.21174@albion.utah.edu> gchunt@hellgate.utah.edu (Galen Hunt) writes: >What I want to know is if I can just get a couple of DB-19 male >connectors and six feet of "regular" insulated cable and make >my own station-to-monitor cable. Is there anything that would >make this less impractical? There is a pin-out on page 382 of my User's Reference (page number may have changed in the new doc's). Anyway, it looks like it should be a 9 pair cable, although I haven't cut one open to see. You'll want to be careful to match each signal with a corresponding ground.
tspencer@eecs.wsu.edu (spencer tim david - CS250) (02/22/91)
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! -- 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 -- -- 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