A TTL Monitor has what pin configuration data plug?

[bupkus]

A 14" Monochrome Monitor TTL has what kind of data plug?

I purchased a 9-pin monitor on ebay but received a 9-pin monitor with a 15-pin data plug.
Catch? The plug only had 9 pins. The manufacturer had only used 9 of the 15 pins.

Back to base 1.

Gonna order this if there is a plug to match our current (ancient) system with a 9-pin plug. Here's a pic of the kind of plug that I need from a monitor.

I'm turning to you all cause I need to avoid another snafu.
Thanks

 

[stevty2889]

A little confused about this. So do you have a 15 pin connector thats only got 9 of the pins in it, or are you saing you have a 9 pin connector, and you are trying to find some kind of adaptor? You do realize that not all 15 pins are used for any montitor, right?

 

[bupkus]

I know it now. Try my links.
Actually, I have a monochrome vga just like the one I got from ebay. Mine, however, has only 8 pins in a 15 pin plug.

I need a monitor with a 9 pin plug with all 9 pins like in the links above.

 

[Zepper]

A ttl monitor has 9 pins. If the cable is detachable then it will usually be 9-pin D-Sub female on the monitor itself and 9-pin D-sub male on each end of the cable ( connectors are the same type used for the 9-pin serial port on a modern PC). TTL mono monitors will only work with mono video adaptors like the old Hercules mono boards and some CGA adapters which are jumperable to TTL mono.
. I guess I answered your other post too as mono VGA only needs 8 or 9 wires like the ttl but the signals are different (ttl is 5V digital and VGA is 1V analog) and they use the same 15-pin High Density connector as any other VGA monitor.
. It's awful to pay that much for a monochrome TTL when you can get 17" VGA color for less (after rebate) just about any week at one big box store or another. You should be able to find a basic PCI VGA card for almost nothing too surely less than $20. Supply and demand...

.bh.

 

[bupkus]

I have several PCI VGA cards but the system is an old Pentium Pro running DOS software on OS/2 Warp Connect. They know the software and don't want to change. The better answer to your statement is that the vga is already installed and used by one user and the TTL is used by another user with his own keyboard by way of the serial interface. You'd have to see it to believe it.
Do a search on echomon.exe. If you can find it maybe it will shed some light on the hardware.

 

[Zepper]

Sounds like something Linux could handle without so much complexity...

.bh.

 

[bupkus]

No doubt. :roll:

Here's the zip file download with contained documentation. The only problem I find is when the doc refers to monochrome it doesn't specify TTL or VGA.

http://www.filelibrary.com:8080/cgi-bin/freedownload/Windows/m/132/ecomon12.zip

 

[Ryan42]

For TTL you need something like a hercules video card. Most I've seen are ISA. TTL is actually a digital interface. I have a TTL monitor (IBM 5151) - it's greenscreen. They're nice for your standard 80 column text display.

I don't know if the cards will drive any graphics or if OS/2 Will support it. Good luck.

 

[Ryan42]

Sorry to doublepost, but what is the model of the monitor?

THanks
~/Ryan

 

[bupkus]

Which one, the TTL that went bad or the VGA with 9/15 pins?
Edit: on second thought, it doesn't matter now. We found a replacement "white paper" TTL at Provantage that we're gonna order.