Well, I do have a BNC male-male adapter, and some BNC cable. That
should suffice as an extension. Safer than a soldering iron... ;-)
	Thanks for the link...

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Michael Kukat [mailto:michael@unixiron.org]
! Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:52 PM
! To: David Woyciesjes
! Cc: classiccmp@classiccmp.org (E-mail); NetBSD/Vax Mail List (E-mail)
! Subject: Re: DEC Cable?
! 
! 
! Hello,
! 
! On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:
! > 	I've got two cables here, DEC p/n BCC17-06 and one with 
! out a p/n,
! > but looks like a DEC cable. Any ideas who/what they're for? 
! And can one of
! > them replace the mono video cable on my VAX Station 3100 (BC23K-03)?
! 
! I don't know these cables, but as both are RGB cables, none 
! of them can replace
! a mono cable. Also look at http://www.bsdfans.org/pinouts.php 
! for the full
! pinout of those connectors.
! 
! And additionally, DEC changed the pinout somewhen for the 
! DECstations and DEC
! (Alpha) machines, maybe even VAXstation 4000 has a different 
! pinout (do they
! have the 15pin connector? Don't know now).
! 
! Best way would be to take a soldering iron and make the cable 
! yourself. The
! other way would be a small bridge between the mono and the 
! green pin to get
! the cable doing mono on the green wire. But this is a 
! modification to your
! holy VAXstation, and you don't really want to do this :)
! 
! And then, there is still the problem with the pinout 
! difference between
! DECstations and VAXstaions. So, as your VAXstation has own 
! keyboard/mouse
! connectors, a simple mono video cable would be the best.
! 
! ...Michael
! 
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