[rescue] ECL to VGA and pinout (anoybody experience with TenoxVGA + Sun2?)

[Walter Belgers]

> On 14 Sep 2023, at 05:01, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
> I believe the manual for the TTM194 has the pinouts for both ends of its cable, I'll see if I took a pic of the page(s) if you can't find a copy online, otherwise I can probably dig it out this weekend.

I saw technical documents, but couldn't find the pinout there, but haven't looked for the normal manual. Thanks for the tip. (I will away for a while so it will be after I return. When I have everything working, I'll mail to the list so the information gets archived.)

> Incidentally, my conspiracy theory about why Atari chose ECL for the mono high-resolution monitor is that they probably got a deal on the mono CRT assemblies from the manufacturer because mono and grayscale were end-of-life for the workstation vendors who had previously been buying them... Hence why even the pinout is identical. (It'd also mean Atari could have prototyped the TT using readily-available Sun displays, without having to wait for their own to be ready.) Anyone with both a working Sun ECL monitor and an Atari TT want to check how they work together? :)

That would make sense. A bit like how the Vectrex came to be because of a huge pile of surplus vector displays.

Walter.