At 6:37 PM -0400 7/19/97, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>>hello
>>I was picking up some old nubus equipment from a consultor who no longer
>>need the equipment, so I thought I'd find out what the parts were.
>>The consultor gave me what he thought was a thicknet ethernet card, which
>>is apparently junk (old) - nothing more than I expected.  It's free
>>equipment, anyway.
>>Well, that card turned out to be a video card, and this is how netbsd
>>looked at it during startup:
>>--cut here--
>>macvid0 at nubus0: Sigma Designs L-View
>>macvid0: 832 x 600, monochrome
>>--cut here--
>>Well, apparently the NetBSD system seems to recognize it, and that can't
>>really be a bad thing. One of the two problems I currently see is that the
>>nubus card has a 9-pin video connector - two rows in trapezoidal shape, one
>>with 5 pins and one with 4. I never have seen such a video connector (not
>>surprising - I don't have any experience with this). I called up some local
>>computer stores and they never heard of them either. What kind of connector
>>is this?
>
>It's for the Sigma L-View monitor. There's also the Multimode version. I
>have one (presently out of operation, bad HV supply I think). The monitor
>was capable of six different resolutions, all the way up to 1600 by 1200 or
>so, monochrome. I don't think the card is of much value w/out the monitor,
>as you guessed, the video connector isn't standard. I may have the pinout
>laying around somewhere. Sigma is out of business now I believe. (Their
>customer service, or rather lack of it, probably helped put them under)
>

oh well. I'll keep it around anyway, nothing better to do with it.
thanks anyway,
  - a

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