jsuker@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Johnathon Laurence Suker) (05/31/91)
I am posting a question for a friend of mine and I thought someone out there in THE KNOW might be able to help us. Can you connect a MacIIsi to a VGA monitor with a special cable. I know it is possible to connect a VGA monitor to a Mac LC but I have not yet heard about the si. Anyone care to comment, this is for a friend who needs to know ASAP to decide on which computer to get. If anyone from Apple is listening, or anyone else with pinouts, a pinout of the pins on the internal video card would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Johnathon Suker -- Johnathon Suker // This opinion and all others stated within are JSUKER@BONNIE.ICS.UCI.EDU// mine, and only mine! None of you can have them! JSUKER@ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU// ===============================================================================
steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) (06/06/91)
I recently asked the same question on the net and got several replies that ONLY the LC has the video circuitry to handle displaying to a VGA monitor. So with a Mac IIsi you have to buy a Real monitor. I might suggest a NEC 14" MacSync. You can get them from Hardware Express 1-800-622-7123 for $460 (this includes UPS Blue shipping). This also includes a 1 year manufaturor's warranty. I have yet to receive mine (I just ordered it a couple of days ago) but know of 2 other people who ordered a MacSync from this place with no problems. One of them has it connected to is IIsi. One item to note is that NEC has discontinued production of this monitor. I don't know why, but at this price, I'll take the risk envolved with buying a discontinued product. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Michael Steele steele@dg-rtp.dg.com or mikes@catt.ncsu.edu Data General Corporation -- Building the finest Workstations in Industry <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
qureshi@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Mohammad Qureshi) (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun5.170738.27712@dg-rtp.dg.com> steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) writes: >monitor. So with a Mac IIsi you have to buy a Real monitor. I might I just bought a IIsi and bought a Viewsonic 5 monitor from Destop Direct. It is VGA monitor with non-interlaced 1024x768. All I needed was an adapter to convert the pin settings. All for 604 including shipping. It is also a trinitron. The only knock I have thus far is that I can't center the destop on the screen. I called DD tech support. They say the problem is that the mac is sending a 13" image and I have a 14" screen. Also something about the contigous screen feature of the mac. Anyone out in net land know if this is reasonable? ( by the way I used the manual image settings to get what I have now. I am the farthest right possible on the controls) However, there is still an uncentered image. ie. more black space on the right versus the left. The colors are real nice though ******************************************************************************* Mohammad Qureshi qureshi@ocf.berkeley.edu Institute of Transportation Studies
qureshi@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Mohammad Qureshi) (06/07/91)
Keywords: VGA MONITOR In article <1991Jun5.170738.27712@dg-rtp.dg.com> steele@mountaindew.rtp.dg.com (Michael Steele) writes: >monitor. So with a Mac IIsi you have to buy a Real monitor. I might I just bought a IIsi and bought a Viewsonic 5 monitor from Destop Direct. It is VGA monitor with non-interlaced 1024x768. All I needed was an adapter to convert the pin settings. All for 604 including shipping. It is also a trinitron. The only knock I have thus far is that I can't center the destop on the screen. I called DD tech support. They say the problem is that the mac is sending a 13" image and I have a 14" screen. Also something about the contigous screen feature of the mac. Anyone out in net land know if this is reasonable? ( by the way I used the manual image settings to get what I have now. I am the farthest right possible on the controls) However, there is still an uncentered image. ie. more black space on the right versus the left. The colors are real nice though ******************************************************************************* Mohammad Qureshi qureshi@ocf.berkeley.edu Institute of Transportation Studies