Macintosh II: Pinouts for Sony CPD-1302 Color Monitor (8/94)



This article documents how to connect a Sony CPD-1302 display to a Macintosh.

To hook a Sony Multiscan (CPD-1302) monitor to a Macintosh II, make an adapter cable from the video card to the monitor (which has a 9-pin D connector).

Here is the pin out description for the adapter cable, using the automatic sync-on-green configuration:

Macintosh Sony Signal
DB-15 Pin DB-9 Name
-------------- ---- ------
1 1 Ground
2 3 Red
5 4 Green
9 5 Blue
15 8 HSync
12 9 VSync

Pins 7 & 10 can be tied together for VGA Extended Sense Code.

This allows the monitor to support 640x480 VGA and 800x600 SVGA resolutions.

Article Change History:
05 Aug 1994 - Changed pinouts to make it easier to connect to Macintosh
computers which provide VGA support.

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Published Date: Feb 18, 2012