PC Compatibility Card: Card And Cable Pinouts

This article describes the video loopback cable that comes with the PC Compatibility cards, and provides pinouts for the cable and the card.
The Apple PC Compatibility cards come bundled with a three-headed video loop-back cable (part number 922-2216). The cable allows the routing of both the PC video signal and the Macintosh video signal to a single monitor.

Listed below are the pinouts for the 26-pin video connector and the 15-pin connector on the card, and the pinouts for the three-headed video loop-back cable:

Video Connector

Pin
Signal
Description
1MAC HSYNCMacintosh horizontal sync.
2,4,6,8GNDLogic ground
3MAC BLUEMacintosh blue signal
5SENSE0Sense line 0
7BLUE OUTBlue output from PCI card
9HSYNC OUTHoriz. sync. output from PCI card
10MAC CSYNCMacintosh contrast sync.
11,13,15,17,21,24 GNDChassis ground
12MAC GREENMacintosh green signal
14SENSE1Sense line 1
16GREEN OUTGreen output from PCI card
18CSYNC OUTContrast sync. out from PCI card
19MAC VSYNCMacintosh vertical sync.
20MAC REDMacintosh red signal
22CABLE DET LCable detect low
23SENSE2Sense line 2
25RED OUTRed output from PCI card
26VSYNC OUTVertical sync. out from PCI card

Joystick Port
Pin
Signal
1,8,9VCC I/O
2JOYF 0
3JRC 0
4,5GROUND
6JRC 1
7JOYF 1
10JOYF 2
11JRC 2
12MIDI OUT
13JRC 3
14JOYF 3
15MIDI IN

Frame Ground (threaded screw holders used to attach cable)

Video "Y" Cable Pinouts, 26-pin End to PC Compatibility Card

Pin
Signal
1MAC HSYNC
2HSYNC RETURN
3MAC BLUE
4MAC BLUE RETURN
5SENSE 0
6BLUE OUT RETURN
7BLUE OUT
8HSYNC OUT RETURN
9HSYNC OUT
10MAC CSYNC
11CSYNC RETURN
12MAC GREEN
13GREEN RETURN
14SENSE 1
15GREEN OUT RETURN
16GREEN OUT
17CSYNC OUT RETURN
18CSYNC OUT
19MAC VSYNC
20MAC RED
21RED RETURN
22CABLE DET
23SENSE 2
24RED OUT RETURN
25RED OUT
26VSYNC OUT

Video "Y" Cable Pinouts, 15-pin End to MAC Video
Pin
Signal
1RED RETURN
2MAC RED
3MAC CSYNC
4SENSE 0
5MAC GREEN
6GREEN RETURN
7SENSE 1
9MAC BLUE
10SENSE 2
11MAC SYNC RETURN
12MAC VSYNC
13MAC BLUE RETURN
14CABLE DETECT
15MAC HSYNC

Video "Y" Cable Pinouts, 15-pin End to Monitor
Pin
Signal
1RED OUT RETURN
2RED OUT
3CSYNC OUT
4SENSE 0
5GREEN OUT
6GREEN OUT RETURN
7SENSE 1
9BLUE OUT
10SENSE 2
11CSYNC OUT RETURN
12VSYNC OUT
13BLUE OUT RETURN
14HSYNC OUT RETURN
15HSYNC OUT
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012