Subject: Re: Adapters to connect Macintosh to a Sun display?
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Stephen Brown <sbrown@best.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/20/1999 19:57:18
Hi Jason,

The SS20 systems came with the "13W3" connector, as did the Ultra 1s,
et cetera.  I found a Sun part #530-2357 that is described as a 20cm cable
with SVGA male and 13W3 female connectors.  You can buy this online from:

http://sunstore.sun.com

The listed price is $45 dollars.  I don't recall what the 7200 has
connections for, so you might have to get a SVGA<->Mac adapter, too.

I'll also include the pinout info from the handbook, if you want
to get really industrious and make one from scratch...;-)

Your connector looks like this, but reversed(The info I have is from 
the motherboard connection side):

	--------------------------
	\      1 ooooo 5         /
	 \  0  6 ooooo 10 0  0  /
	  \ A1		  A2 A3/
	   --------------------

Hopefully, this conveys the general idea of three larger connections with
ten smaller ones wedged in between.  The smaller connections are labelled
1 through 10 left to right, top to bottom.  Anyway, the pinout is as follows:

Pin  Function      I/O  Level
-----------------------------
                        
A1   Red           O    Analog
                        
A2   Green         O    Analog
                        
A3   Blue          O    Analog
                        
1    Serial Read        TTL
                        
2    Vert Sync     O    TTL
                        
3    Sense <0'>     I    TTL
                        
4    Ground             GND
                        
5    Comp Sync     O    TTL
                        
6    Hort Sync     O    TTL
                        
7    Serial Write       TTL
                        
8    Sense <1'>     I    TTL
                        
9    Sense <2'>     I    TTL
                        
10   Ground             GND

-----------------------------

This data comes from the SPARCstation(tm) 20 service manual.

Cheers,
Steve Brown
sbrown@best.com

p.s. Please forgive the crude ASCII drawing...

> Hi folks...
>
> First, lemme apologize for the cross-post and somewhat off-topic question :-)
>
> I have a friend with a PowerMacintosh 7200.  Unfortunately, she has the
> dinky 14'' Apple display for it.  She does, however, have a sweet 19''
> Sun display (the type with the little remote control that came on late
> SS10 and the SS20 models) which is currently unused.
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible to hook this display up to said Mac
> in such a way that will work? :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
>
>