--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Christian Wacker <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Christian Wacker <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Plans for midi interface
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3:27 PM
> 
> I found a cable about 2 weeks ago in my box of stuff, it
> fits both a
> Mac serial port and a 15 pin MIDI port (or it fits any 9Pin
> monitor...
> I had one but it wouldn't work, and the 15 pin fits the
> Mac's monitor
> port, so I guessed that was what it was for.)
> I dunno what this cable would do MIDI wise, but it does
> look supicious.

It's probably a cable to connect a Mac's 15 pin monitor port to one of the 
early VGA monitors with a 9 pin connection.

Many of those monitors had switchable modes for Mac and PC CGA, EGA and VGA. I 
have one in storage, it was quite useful back when I still was getting old PC 
clones with TTL video that needed work.


      

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