13w3 adaptor or cable

[Micom 2000]

My Next megapixel monitor has been dead for some time so I want to connect my Iyama to it. The Iyama has a 5 BNC RGB and a 15-pin VGA connectors. I need a 13w3-f to either config male. Adaptor or cable. I believe SGI and Sun monitor cables would work. Will buy or trade(I have many items).

Lawrence

[carlsson]

You may be able to buy these connectors loose, but they can be rather expensive.

Here is a web page with pinouts for five different 13W3 video outputs:

http://www.monitorworld.com/Cables/video_standards.html

Based on that page, the NeXT pinout is not identical to neither RS/6000, Sun, SGI or Intergraph.

On the other hand, some place who sells 13W3 to VGA adapters claim their adapters will be universal within Sun, SGI and NeXT. I'm not sure whom to believe - or both?

http://www.si87.com/Products/Cabling/Adapters/adapters.html

[Micom 2000]

Yeah I saw those pages and have pin-outs from 2 separate sources both different. The Black Hole site has cables that have 3 BNC connectors. Don't know if that would work on my Iyama which has 5. I'd really prefer using the RGB bnc connection. Guess I'll have to check out the comp.sys.next newsgroup if anyone still uses it.
One cable source wanted $170 for the cable. Ridiculous.

Lawrence

[carlsson]

Three BNC sounds like composite sync-on-green, while your monitor has separate horizontal and vertical syncs? Possibly the Iyama can be run as either, check a manual in that case.