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Re: HP 16500C Display Question


 

EGA monitors are quite rare and expensive today, due to idiots obsessively e-cycling them. If they are still common down in your area, you are very lucky!

-Dave

On November 3, 2024 8:41:58 AM "Alexandre Souza" <alexandre.tabajara@...> wrote:>Is it just me or no one understands this is a common EGA monitor?
Enviado do meu Tele-Movel.
Desculpe a brevidade.

Em dom., 3 de nov. de 2024 06:30, Damien Towning via groups.io
<connolly.damien@...> escreveu:

I found a link to somebody who had converted the display to use in a video
game console. I think it is vga.

In the service manual is a brief mention of the pinout. Looks like vga. I
had a quick go at jumpering it out to a vga cable.

Interestingly appeared to get sync but only a black screen displayed.

See here for more detailed description :


The pinout / cable appears to have changed during revisions to....

On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 12:33?AM William Stillwell - KI4SWY via groups.io
<ki4swy@...> wrote:

Based on the information from the GitHub , looks like its actually a
"EGA" Signal ( or Medium Res ) ~ Close to Amiga Res..

You could be able to just piggy back off the signal and use an external
monitor that supports ~25Khz and is larger , or maybe a GBS-8200 to adapt
to a larger monitor for easier view.
--
Damien Towning


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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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