Mitsubishi Diamondscan 20m

[Chris M]

--- Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:

> > picked up one of these at a doofis computer flea
> > market this past weekend. Didn't know anything
> about
> > it in particular, but the switch settings specific
> to
> > 8, 16, 64 color TTL led me to believe it would be
> > applicable for vintage usage. I was right,
> following
> > my looking up it's specs on the web. Problem is
> the
> > thing displays nothing (although tube is
> emminently
> > functional - considerable static on the face of
> the
> > tube, and it flashes white when powered down), the
> > only *sign* is the blinking diode next to the
> up/down
> > contrast or brightness buttons (there's 4 in all,
> it
> > probably doesn't matter, and I can't remember).
> Anyone
> > have one, or a manual? It would be a shame if I
> > couldn't get this puppy operational.

> Those old monitors used to go with the old Avid
> Media Composers in the 
> 1990's (NLE video editing), they only do 800x600 and
> should do 15khz which 
> is usable on Amigas. Which port were you using and
> what did you connect to 
> it?

 Yeah my laptop was probably pumping out 1024 x 768
come to think of it, but that never stopped any other
monitor I've played with from displaying *something*.
But most of those have been fixed frequency. I tried
both vga connectors. I didn't have a BNC cable handy
to try out that. I didn't alter the dip switches at
all. I'll need to know what purposes 6,7, and 8 serve,
because it's not described. 
 I guess I should try an Amiga group to find a manual
maybe...
 Just for clarity, I doubt the monitor does only 800 x
600. According to the specs I found on the net, it
will sync down to 15khz, and maxs out @ 800 x 600
(36khz or so I guess).
 Weird that they didn't supply a 9 pin connector. But
not really I guess since not too many people were
using them by 1992 (except for Fred C. of course LOL).


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