VAXstation 4000/60: from dumpster to desktop

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Seth Morabito wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Joe Giliberti <starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>> I picked up this morning a VAXstation 4000/60 from the local recycling
>> center's computer dumpster. I could not find the monitor or keyboard. Is
>> there any way to make a VGA monitor, and PS/2 Keyboard/mouse work on this
>> machine?
> 
> Did it include the monitor cable?  If I remember right, the 4000 used
> a 3W3 (*NOT* 13W3) connector for video, which might be hard to come
> by.  But if you can find a 3W3 connector, you can make your own 3W3 to
> VGA cable fairly easily.  Any monitor that does Sync-on-Green should
> work.  Most 17-inch and larger CRT displays seem to have this feature.
> I've even used my ViewSonic VP201b  LCD display -- the analog input
> does sync-on-green, which I've found to be incredibly useful.

It's FAR easier to find a 3w3->3BNC cable than to find a bare 3w3 connector.

Peace...  Sridhar