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From: rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 17" monitor with RGB/sync to VGA ??
Date: 18 Apr 1993 18:46:08 -0400
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scanlonm@rimail.interlan.com (Michael Scanlon) writes:

>I don't know if this is an obvious question, but can any of the current 
>batch of windows accelerator cards (diamond etc) be used to drive a monitor 
>which has RGB and horizontal and vertical sync ( 5 BNC jacks altogether) 
>connectors out the back??  I might be able to get ahold of a Raster 
>Technologies 17" monitor (1510 ??)cheap and I was wondering if it was 
>possible to connect it via an adapter (RGB to vga ??) to my Gateway, would 
>I need different drivers etc.  


>Thanks

>Mike Scanlon 
>please reply to scanlon@interlan.com

You need a monitor cable that has a VGA connector on one end and five BNC
connectors on the other.  I bought one from Nanao when I bought the Nanao
monitor I use, which also has five BNC connectors.  Check with a computer
store that sells good monitors.  Quite a few companies use that setup.

