New screen with odd plug.

[funxus]

I just acquired a second-hand screen from my job this summer, and I intend to use it for my laptop (games look better on CRT-screens IMO). The problem is that the screen was originally used with a Sun workstation, so the plug looks really odd and apparently only works on Sun workstations. At my job, they had converters for these screens to VGA plugs, but the only one left didn't work. I therefore went to a computer store to buy one, but he said he'd only heard of them, but that it was really hard to get hold of (sun is not fond of people using the screens with other computers apparently). So, either I find a converter on the net, or I cut the cable and solder a VGA plug on it. I'd prefer the first one since I don't know much about soldering VGA cables and since I'll probably connect/disconnect it often as the computer is a laptop. If I can't get hold of a converter, the only thing I can do is to solder (I can get what's needed for that), but does anyone know where I can find out which cables to solder where on the plug?

The cable looks like this, where the colons are diagonal and not vertical:
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[CrackedCrystal]

I would highly suggest you not solder. Monitors carry analog signals and soldering would change the resistance ans capacitance of the wires creating noise.

I think this is what you want
http://www.raritan.com/public/catalog/accessory_product.aspx?apid=104&apl=true

They sell it here
http://www.kvms.com/nav/item.asp?item=4861

But I have never bought from that company before, so I cannot vouch for them. And I have never used this addapter before, so I can't be 100% sure it would work.

 

[funxus]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. It was a bit more expensive than I expected though, so I'll see if I can ask someone about it.

 

[Turner]

We use Raritan for IPKVM. So I'm a bit familiar with the company, at least the Telereach software. It's okay, better then some.

I too would say don't solder. I think we have some of these adapters floating around work. I'll have to see if they're hooked up, but I do know if they are they work fine, cuz I don't know of any problems with them.