[HECnet] Vaxsvtation 4000 graphics to VGA?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Wed Apr 20 11:03:00 PDT 2016


On 2016-04-20 19:58, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> I’ve got two VAXstation 4000s, and I think they both have a graphics card in them - one with a weird connector with 3 circular sockets and another with a DB25-looking thing and they seem to have a picture of a monitor on them.
>
> So a couple of questions?
>
> Anyone know where I can get an adapter cable for one or the other of those to a VGA monitor? (basically, does anyone have a spare that they’d like to sell)?
>
> Are they likely to work with an LCD monitor or do I need to get an older CRT one?

Basically the video output from all DEC stuff is analog video with sync 
on green. So just find a video converter that can take analog RGB video 
input with sync on green, and then output to VGA or whatever, and you're 
good.

	Johnny


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