New monitors on old machines

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2 Nov 2006 at 12:47, Chris M wrote:

>  Anyway, I do have one weirdo of a Sony monitor that
> although has a 9 pin jack, only syncs to VGA analog?
> Sony's first multisyncer (which is what I thought this
> thing was when I bought it at Goodwill or somewhere)
> was an improvement over NEC's in at least one respect
> - it supported 600 lines of resolution, where the NEC
> only was 'sposed to go to 560.
>
If that's the 1302, I've got the service manual and schematics.    
It'll do VGA, but not anything beyond 800x600.  I bought mine at WCCF 
sometime in the 80's and paid about $600 for it and thought I was 
getting a real bargain.    The thing had an unbelieveably thick IEC 
power cord.

I mostly used it with the Everex Micro Enhancer EGA cards and briefly 
with a Paradise VGA until I went to surplus fixed-frequency 
workstation monitors.   Still have the EGA cards, but heaven only 
knows why.

Times have changed...

Cheers,
Chuck