LCD question

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: LCD question
>   From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
>   Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:19:08 -0400
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Friday 11 August 2006 02:35 pm, Evan Koblentz wrote:
>> Western Digital is a major manufacturer of hard drives.
>
>I knew that,  I have several of them on hand here.  And that's the *only* 
>computer I've ever seen that had that name on it.  And it was 
>semi-proprietary in terms of the way it was built,  no way was I gonna bother 
>with messing with it...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy J. Tellason [mailto:rtellason at verizon.net]
>> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 1:53 PM
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> Subject: LCD question
>>
>> Some time back,  I pulled apart a fairly trashed XT-class computer and one
>> of the things I got out of it was an LCD,  most of it appearing to be
>> fairly standard stuff and I don't think that I'm going to have a lot of
>> trouble with that but then there's that other connector...
>>
>> Two pins,  and both wires are the same color.
>>
>> It's been suggested to me that perhaps this is for an EL backlight.  Any of
>> you folks know of how I might go about testing that,  so I can get some
>> idea of what's actually in there?
>>
>> Anybody by any chance know of this display?
>>
>> Oh,  and if it helps any the brand name on the box was "Western Digital",
>> which is the only time I've ever seen that brand name on a computer.


Lest we forget the WD Pascal Micro?  The one with the WD16 chipset 
programmed as a P-engine.

Allison


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>Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
>ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
>be killed but can't be tamed.  --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
>-
>Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James 
>M Dakin