13W3 TO VGA Video adaptor cable

This moorning I received a new 13W3 to HD15 adapter from K1Connectivity. This was a Sun to VGA adapter but I ordered because it was the cheapest adapter I find in Ebay, very very cheap!!. Acordingly with this topic in the Nekochan forums, depending of the monitor it can work or not. Using a Sun adapter you need a Sync on Green monitor and the monitor has to cut the oder signals. I have a SoG monitor but it has problems with the other signals wired in the adapter. Two solutions are available:
1.- Cut the pins that I don't need from the adaptor.
2.- Take out the 13W3 plug of the adaptor and make a new cable.

Finally I created a new cable: Cleaning the 13W3 plug was dificult because it was plenty of glue to fix of the cables (the quality of manufacture is very good). I only wired pins A1, A2 and A3 and their shileds to pins 1,2 and 3 of the HD15 (male to plug directly to the monitor). The shields in the HD15 are welded togheter and only one wire and needed to do the cable adapter (bridging all the shields in the 13W3).

And it works!!!

It is not a beauty adaptor but with a new plug case and a little bit of glue it is usable until the end of the days!!!

Titox's Unix World starts!!!!!

Finally my SGI Octane 2 arrived. From some months ago I was thinking about buy an Unix workstation or server. Sun Blade and Netra was my first optionbecause I had installed Solaris in my PC box, but from short time ago the SGI old systems prices are falling down and an a O2 or Octane went to the first position in my wish list (and these systems a so cool and beautiful).

The last year a Spanish second hand systems reseller start to sell SGI Octane2 in a very low prices and a lot of this systems were sold. Last moth he started to sell Octane2 again I tis week I bid for one.

My workstation has 400 MHz R12000 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and a 9 GB hard disk. The seller says it has a VPro 10 gfx card but I don't belive (one of this cards alone duplcates the money of all my Octane2). Usualy it would be a VPro6.


You can see it needs a good clean work!!!. Today I connected with a null cable modem with good results (I don't have 13W3 to VGA adapter yet) and the hardware seems OK. Only need software installation.

These weekend I'll start to clean... we will see the results.