Subject: Re: VAXstation 4000/90 Success!On July 13, Robert Schaefer wrote:
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/14/2002 14:01:28
On July 14, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> 	Actually it's easy to detect if a monitor is connected (and I know
> that the PMAGB-B does this) Just set the RAMDACs output current up to full
> scale, the lack of the 75 Ohm termination in the monitor will cause the
> output voltage on the R|G|B signals to be double (assuming they are reverse
> terminated) or more than double the expected value. A simple DC comparator
> will now tell you if a monitor is connected...

  Eeew, are you sure it does that?  That's *wild*.  I stand very much
corrected.

  "Just when you thought you'd seen it all..." ;)

    -Dave

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