Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Todd Brayer
Stupid question: Aside from VRAM limitations, is there anything that is stopping me using a large LCD screen on an old mac? The connectors are the same. Todd Brayer toddbra...@gmail.com -- - You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at

Re: Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Alex Barnes
: Wed, December 15, 2010 10:35:43 AM Subject: Fancy new screens for old macs Stupid question: Aside from VRAM limitations, is there anything that is stopping me using a large LCD screen on an old mac? The connectors are the same. Todd Brayer toddbra...@gmail.com -- - You

Re: Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Scott Holder
On 12/15/2010 10:35 AM, Todd Brayer wrote: Stupid question: Aside from VRAM limitations, is there anything that is stopping me using a large LCD screen on an old mac? The connectors are the same. I too have an LCD hooked up to a IIci and/or LC475 at various times and it works great. The

Re: Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin Kelley
It should support it fine. I did have to use a autosync feature on my monitor because my sony would no function because it was set at a static rate. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Todd Brayer toddbra...@gmail.com wrote: Stupid question: Aside from VRAM limitations, is there anything that is

Re: Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Gregg Eshelman
If the old mac has the high density 15 pin connector, then it should work with any monitor with that connector. The older ones with the two row 15 pin connector (which you do not ever plug a PC joystick into, or an old Mac monitor into a PC's joystick port) require some of the pins in the

Re: Fancy new screens for old macs

2010-12-15 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 15, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: The main gotcha with connecting a new monitor to a really vintage Mac (mostly 68k CPU ones) is they used sync on green while the VGA standard (and its various extended modes) used separate or composite sync signals. Composite sync simply