Also note that IBM made an adapter for this purpose. I still have some from my days supporting PS/2s for my employer when I was in college. Just plug this little adapter into the PS/2 and plug a normal monitor into it. The IBM FRU is 96G2693.
I always found it interesting how Windows 2.x/3.x, OS/2, and even the Common Desktop Environment on UNIX all basically shared the same user interface thanks to IBM's Common User Access specification. Supposedly that's where Alt+F4 for close and F1 for help came from. Can't wait for your take on OS/2 :)
A more flexible solution is to modify an extension cable by removing the corresponding pin. That way, you can keep all your machines and monitors unmodified (if you happen to have more than one).
I'm still using that now, but with a drill bit. One night I was tired of pulling out blocked IDE cables from my stash and spent 30 minutes and a beer to drill them all out.
David Barnes was awesome at presenting OS/2. If everyone could've seen one of his demonstrations, Windows may not be the dominant operating system today.
Ah, that old problem. My preferred solution so far has been to use a short VGA extension cable and just snap that pin off, that way neither the monitor cable or video card need to be modified, just the cheap cable added between them.
In the past, I've used the sharp pointy end of a safety pin to clear that hole. Likely would be even easier if it was heated, but I didn't need to do so.
I can't recall how many cables I had to go in with my needlenose pliers and small flat blade screwdriver to straighten bent pins. And not all were like these HD-15 video plugs, some people would just carelessly drop the cables, pins would get bent a little, then they would just jam the plugs onto the device and it was mangle city time! Always fun when the pins would bend over and short to another. Some of those HD-15S would be made one-piece, but some used an actual plastic insert to fill the missing pin gap. I was able to remove those in a few cases, or used a small drill bit to drill them out.
I usually used a broken cable with all the pins still on it and jam it in there to make the hole. Doesn't always work tho, some cheaper and newer cables just ended up with the pin on the cable side pushed in the connector housing without making the hole.
That issue toward the end reminded me of how, in the old days, you'd try something that was a bit too far, and you'd get something stuck. Then it was a matter of figuring out how the heck to get everything reset back to defaults so you could try again. It could be frustrating at times, but I guess that was part of the "fun".
I can´t wait for the OS/2 video(s). And, I used to cut the pin in the monitor connector instead making the hole in the VGA adapter. That way, I could use a monitor with any card. But that was when all my monitors were CRT. The last one was an Proview 17" beige CRT that was amazing for games as well for office tasks; it never tired my eyes.
@@tarstarkusz I ran OS/2 v3 on an unimpressive 66MHz PS/1 with no L2 cache until 1997 and dont remember any issues with boot up times. Reinstalling from the absurd quantity of floppies however... I do remember initially trying to use OS/2 v3 on my IBM "Cobalt Blue", which was built on a 100MHz IBM Blue Lightning CPU. It would always lock up on the first boot after install - whatever the equivalent to a kernel panic or BSOD was called. Never found a solution, was really frustraiting considering how many hours it took to get to that point.
@@savagemadman2054 Yep. And the OS/2 floppy installs were dogmatic that you install it _from those floppies,_ too. No copying it over to a HDD, ZIP drive, or CD-R first. Insert disk 27 to continue.
I plunked down actual money when OS/2 Warp 3 came out in late 1994. I had hell getting it configured on clone hardware. I suspect it runs pretty well on true Blue IBM stuff though. Networking seemed limited to me at the time too.
I was always under the impression the base of the flame was the hottest part - something along the lines of; The higher the temperature, the more energetic the photons are, giving them a shorter wavelength which pushes them towards the blue end of the spectrum... Been 30+ years since my 'high school' physics classes mind ;-)
IBM was probably desperately trying to avoid the problem they had with EGA/CGA and Token Ring where they used the same DB-9 (female on the card) and a whole array of bad things would happen if you mixed the two up. Just in case, key the hell out of the port if we have to use another HD15 for something. Also, Barnes was so entertaining back then.
there were used for something else, at least here in the UK, the connector to the descrambler for some Amstrad analogue Astra satellite receivers, one end of the cable, other end a scart plug, which plugged into the descrambler box ! others may have used similar, dont know
Oh, how I tried to use Warp back in the day as a daily driver...just couldn't do it for long. But I did support a few mission critical healthcare apps that used it, and it was pretty reliable, as long as the system was siloed and didn't require a lot of adds/changes, etc.
Tried using OS/2 2.0 back in the day but it didn't support by sound card or CD-ROM. Being able to theme the UI directly by dragging colors directly onto the desktop was pretty cool. So was the cut Cat applet.
5:51 Have you tried selecting ViewSonic 7 in the Display list? It offers some non-interlaced refresh rates at the higher resolutions. My PS/2 is hooked to an old CRT monitor which fortunately needs no modification to pins, but it might be worth a try on your setup.
Ha! I used almost exactly the same solution on some old VGA cards and on the integrated graphich card of an old HP Vectra 486. Only difference that I used a sewing needle heated up with a lighter...
Great information, I've always wondered about those missing pins on some cables. Maybe sharpen the paper clip and use it as a drill bit. Dremel engraving tools probably has a good option. Hobby stores have micro drill bits, too.
I have one old LCD monitor from work that handles basically anything, including 75hz signals and/or 15kHz 480i with deinterlacing (tho 240p is too much for it), but I also had another cheap monitor that didn't even handle the common 640x480 resolution. Had to go in the BIOS? Good luck Anyways all of these problems can now be solved with good scalers
@@carolinehusky 75 Hz is a common refresh rate for LCDs, e. g. 1280x1024 @75 Hz, when 1680x1050 @60 Hz is the maximum resolution. About that cheap monitor - 640x480 is the VGA resolution, which means that it is THE resolution; a display that can‘t handle it is really odd 😆 The BIOS setup is often in text mode (720x400 @70 Hz), so I hope the monitor can handle that😁
@@meiklman The latter was a really cheap monitor included with a equally cheap desktop for free, so I guess them only supporting the monitor`s native resolution and nothing more must have cut their cost by like 50p XD
OS/2 Warp was really good. Only thing that annoyed me back in the day was that if you touched ctrl-alt-del, it instantly rebooted your pc, no questions asked.
@@vwestlife well, that key combination WAS the 'reset' for DOS, anyway! cant remember what happens in win 3.1 .... ?! might try it tonight, i have a dell latitude 450c laptop with win3.11 for workgroups on it, ex British Rail !
Thats really neat i didnt know they had a different pin out. Love that cup you zoomed in on then came slowly back out that was really good. Ive never seen os/2. Only thing about some vintage computers if i have a way to use it i would . I have alot of games and some operating systems given to me. Windows me 2000 xp professional some windows xp plus disk its a good stuff just funny windows xp blue screens if you try running on my 2011 toshibia satellite laptop lol. But 7 8 10 Linux run fine . im assuming because of the Intel I3 processor. Xp goes nope not running here lol
A small drill bit also works nicely. (Or, as others have pointed out, if you're feeling brave and/or stupid, you can just ram the connector in and hope for the best. The "missing" hole is usually thinner plastic than the rest, which is probably why you can do that and usually get away with it,.) OS/2 really _was_ a better DOS and Windows, at least until Microsoft pulled the rug out from OS/2's implementation of Win32s. IBM's own arrogance at the time sure didn't help either. ("People will buy it because it's from IBM.") The Corrective Service Facility tool (for Fixpaks) is also a less than user friendly pain. (Someone did package it and the Fixpaks up in an easy to use format, though I don't know if those are still around.)
BTW - you could also pull the XGA-2 adapter, bump up the planar VRAM to 512Kb (soldering!), and install the VESA driver to unlock all the SVGA goodness built into the 8556/8557!
I have a Sansui flatscreen TV that is native 720p and I use it as my computer monitor at 1366x768 16X9 resolution and all my games seem happy. Sometimes you have to change settings but I have the resolution printed on a small label on my screen.
At the time of the CRT endgame, I used VGA to feed 1600x1200 to DELL 21" monitors, and if you didn't use high-quality cables, the picture looked like shit from all the ringing and ghosting and interference.
I did something similar, I just used the tip of the paperclip like a drill bit after snipping a bit off to get a blade-like end, and then just wound it into the plastic 'til it cut its' way through and sorted, a more modern LCD worked with the old laptop with a dead screen... :P
btw, maybe i watched some old cam, electronic and vintage pc stuffs in your channel , every time i see something like old video camera in movie , first thing popup in my head : "that vwestlife guy probably got one"always,just like recently a tv series "archive 81" on netflix, in this tv show, that old sony video camera shown in every episode, was a SONY HI8 CAM or somethings.
I recall having a video card with this pin blocked out, way back in the day. Never understood why they'd take the extra step of blocking the single hole.
Keying to prevent insertion of an electrically incompatible plug that uses the same connector. IBM probably had (or had planned) some other thing using the same HD-15 connector.
@@tookitogo Or were just futureproofing, given how the DB-9 connectors used by MDA, CGA, and EGA video were also used by 9-pin serial and some networking cables. "We'll key the VGA jack, in case something else uses a DE-15 connector someday."
With all this stuff I’ve been hearing about most new cassette players using a bad cheap mechanism, what device would you recommend I get for making MP3 rips of cassette tapes? I have some story cassettes from my childhood that I’ve yet to see online uploads of.
This tutorial came at the same moment I needed it for one of my old IBM pcs in my godown which I needed for some softwares to run and I was afraid to that thing even tho I knew it wouldn't break anything but after I watched this I had some courage and did it. While I expect big youtubers to be like yea we used a $90,000 cnc router for exact measurments COUGH COUGH linus COUGH COUGH
That's not true. To go from interlaced to progressive you have exactly the same field rate, you just exclusively send odd fields instead of alternating between odd/even. So in fact you are doubling frame rate. This is because the only thing that makes a video signal interlaced or not is the timing of the final video line. If the v sync pulse happens half way through the final line, then the next field will be vertically offset. The refresh rate and horizontal scanning rate are exactly the same, the monitor cannot tell the difference at all.
@@vwestlife I think you said it backwards in the video. it was 44.7 interlaced fields which would make it effectively 22.35 frames a second, de-interlaced.
@@kyle8952 To convert from interlaced to progressive, you merge the even and odd fields to form one full frame, effectively halving your field rate to your new frame rate. If you only sent the odd or even fields, you'd literally have half a picture with stripes running through it. So 60hz interlaced, would become 30fps progressively/non-interlaced. This is why everything in broadcast is recorded at either 60i or 30p.
@@Nabeelco No, I'm right. IBM used Hz to refer to the number of complete frames per second, not the number of interlaced fields per second. For example, their 8514/A graphics standard was 43.5 Hz which equals 87 interlaced fields per second: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8514
I forgot about this. My mouse is not recognized and scan shows cable disconnect. The PS/2 port for keyboard works, disabled number lock keys etc. Mouse cursor just sit there. Will try fire and paper clip before checking if this is some sort of scamware ( Windows) as my port was breaking wiggle ly. Thanks
Hey there folks. I have a question a bit out of context. Can I put a straight tonearm’s cartridge on a turntable with curved tonearm, keeping in mind that both turntable from DUAL. Thank you.
"just use some hot metal" is once again proving to be a timeless solution to many of life's problems.
Also note that IBM made an adapter for this purpose. I still have some from my days supporting PS/2s for my employer when I was in college. Just plug this little adapter into the PS/2 and plug a normal monitor into it. The IBM FRU is 96G2693.
I always found it interesting how Windows 2.x/3.x, OS/2, and even the Common Desktop Environment on UNIX all basically shared the same user interface thanks to IBM's Common User Access specification. Supposedly that's where Alt+F4 for close and F1 for help came from. Can't wait for your take on OS/2 :)
I'd love to hear what he has to say about OS/2 as well.
I see what you really did here: you forever wanted to deform clippy and then put him to the fires of hell. The VGA story is just cover-up.
A more flexible solution is to modify an extension cable by removing the corresponding pin. That way, you can keep all your machines and monitors unmodified (if you happen to have more than one).
Yeah I kinda thought this might be better lol (if you got a spare vga cable or find one for 1 dollar)
TH-cam blocks me from even hinting at the interposer like I have in a recent 'Community' post...
M/M adapter, bust a pin off, or pull it through.
Otherwise, I've just drilled the blank out with a 1/32 inch.
I've used the very same trick nearly 25 years ago on an IDE cable. Worked a treat.
Oops, you were quicker than me, hehe. Sometimes, if you have a needle, you can actually pull out a plug that is just in there if it's not glued in.
I'm still using that now, but with a drill bit. One night I was tired of pulling out blocked IDE cables from my stash and spent 30 minutes and a beer to drill them all out.
The "comments are disabled" cup is a subtle poke =D
David Barnes was awesome at presenting OS/2. If everyone could've seen one of his demonstrations, Windows may not be the dominant operating system today.
You could wrap the paper clip around the tip of a soldering iron.
Oh, the forbidden paperclip
At least he didn't butcher it with a Dremel.
Ah, that old problem. My preferred solution so far has been to use a short VGA extension cable and just snap that pin off, that way neither the monitor cable or video card need to be modified, just the cheap cable added between them.
I like the idea of not modifying the original parts, this seems a better solution.
Nice to see you in the wild...! (Subscriber here... :) )
In the past, I've used the sharp pointy end of a safety pin to clear that hole. Likely would be even easier if it was heated, but I didn't need to do so.
Same here. No melting needed.
I can't recall how many cables I had to go in with my needlenose pliers and small flat blade screwdriver to straighten bent pins. And not all were like these HD-15 video plugs, some people would just carelessly drop the cables, pins would get bent a little, then they would just jam the plugs onto the device and it was mangle city time! Always fun when the pins would bend over and short to another.
Some of those HD-15S would be made one-piece, but some used an actual plastic insert to fill the missing pin gap. I was able to remove those in a few cases, or used a small drill bit to drill them out.
I usually used a broken cable with all the pins still on it and jam it in there to make the hole. Doesn't always work tho, some cheaper and newer cables just ended up with the pin on the cable side pushed in the connector housing without making the hole.
That issue toward the end reminded me of how, in the old days, you'd try something that was a bit too far, and you'd get something stuck. Then it was a matter of figuring out how the heck to get everything reset back to defaults so you could try again. It could be frustrating at times, but I guess that was part of the "fun".
I can´t wait for the OS/2 video(s). And, I used to cut the pin in the monitor connector instead making the hole in the VGA adapter. That way, I could use a monitor with any card. But that was when all my monitors were CRT. The last one was an Proview 17" beige CRT that was amazing for games as well for office tasks; it never tired my eyes.
@@tarstarkusz It's a clock-tripled 486 with a fast SCSI hard drive and 16 MB of RAM. It should be fine.
@@tarstarkusz I ran OS/2 v3 on an unimpressive 66MHz PS/1 with no L2 cache until 1997 and dont remember any issues with boot up times. Reinstalling from the absurd quantity of floppies however...
I do remember initially trying to use OS/2 v3 on my IBM "Cobalt Blue", which was built on a 100MHz IBM Blue Lightning CPU. It would always lock up on the first boot after install - whatever the equivalent to a kernel panic or BSOD was called. Never found a solution, was really frustraiting considering how many hours it took to get to that point.
@@tarstarkusz just like the windows 11 experience when you have a standard hd...
@@savagemadman2054 Yep. And the OS/2 floppy installs were dogmatic that you install it _from those floppies,_ too. No copying it over to a HDD, ZIP drive, or CD-R first. Insert disk 27 to continue.
I plunked down actual money when OS/2 Warp 3 came out in late 1994. I had hell getting it configured on clone hardware. I suspect it runs pretty well on true Blue IBM stuff though. Networking seemed limited to me at the time too.
I was always under the impression the base of the flame was the hottest part - something along the lines of; The higher the temperature, the more energetic the photons are, giving them a shorter wavelength which pushes them towards the blue end of the spectrum...
Been 30+ years since my 'high school' physics classes mind ;-)
Look it up on Wikipedia. The tip of the flame is the hottest part.
According to The 8-Bit Guy, you can also fix the power supplies on extremely rare protoypes with a paperclip.
hehe 😉
Yes! Then attack the lid of the power supply with a Dremel. Nobody can forget that video.
@@cdl0 ya gotta show me that. I can't find it
@@Poop-nu1so The famous video is th-cam.com/video/Wh2OCBZpzZ8/w-d-xo.html. Comments are disabled.
I think TH-cam just shadowbanned this comment, I could only find this comment using the TH-cam Comment Finder. Weird...
IBM was probably desperately trying to avoid the problem they had with EGA/CGA and Token Ring where they used the same DB-9 (female on the card) and a whole array of bad things would happen if you mixed the two up. Just in case, key the hell out of the port if we have to use another HD15 for something.
Also, Barnes was so entertaining back then.
there were used for something else, at least here in the UK, the connector to the descrambler for some Amstrad analogue Astra satellite receivers, one end of the cable, other end a scart plug, which plugged into the descrambler box ! others may have used similar, dont know
MCGA future use I bet.
seems like a quick method. previously I just used a small screwdriver meant for eyeglasses and sort of manually drilled the hole out.
Alt Ctrl Del
That feels so jarring to hear it said like that
Left me on a cliffhanger! I'm excited for your next upload. Your videos are always they best.
Oh, how I tried to use Warp back in the day as a daily driver...just couldn't do it for long. But I did support a few mission critical healthcare apps that used it, and it was pretty reliable, as long as the system was siloed and didn't require a lot of adds/changes, etc.
Tried using OS/2 2.0 back in the day but it didn't support by sound card or CD-ROM. Being able to theme the UI directly by dragging colors directly onto the desktop was pretty cool. So was the cut Cat applet.
Such a great tip that probably no one will ever use!
Why not press the paper clip into the ‘hole’, and heat just below (like a soldering iron does)
🔥 FIRE 🔥
Fixes everything.
Thank you for the valuable lesson.
5:51 Have you tried selecting ViewSonic 7 in the Display list? It offers some non-interlaced refresh rates at the higher resolutions. My PS/2 is hooked to an old CRT monitor which fortunately needs no modification to pins, but it might be worth a try on your setup.
"with a lcd thre's really not that much benefit to those higher refresh rates" fightin' words for gamers. ;)
So timely, this happened to me in 1990, I'm so glad I found this TH-cam video now.
Ha! I used almost exactly the same solution on some old VGA cards and on the integrated graphich card of an old HP Vectra 486. Only difference that I used a sewing needle heated up with a lighter...
Great video. I have a single monitor that uses that old pin out and always wondered why they blocked that hole.
A small hard metal drill also works perfect. Because it's small and you drill plastic, you can do this without a handle.
Thanks for the video, Kevin.
My candy covered paperclips are always plain flavored. Very disappointing.
Thanks for the upload! :)
I used to run a m-f extension block with a removed pin for the missing pin 9.
Great information, I've always wondered about those missing pins on some cables. Maybe sharpen the paper clip and use it as a drill bit. Dremel engraving tools probably has a good option. Hobby stores have micro drill bits, too.
Most LCD monitors can't handle interlaced resolutions or horizontal frequencies below ~30 kHz.
I have one old LCD monitor from work that handles basically anything, including 75hz signals and/or 15kHz 480i with deinterlacing (tho 240p is too much for it), but I also had another cheap monitor that didn't even handle the common 640x480 resolution. Had to go in the BIOS? Good luck
Anyways all of these problems can now be solved with good scalers
@@carolinehusky 75 Hz is a common refresh rate for LCDs, e. g. 1280x1024 @75 Hz, when 1680x1050 @60 Hz is the maximum resolution.
About that cheap monitor - 640x480 is the VGA resolution, which means that it is THE resolution; a display that can‘t handle it is really odd 😆
The BIOS setup is often in text mode (720x400 @70 Hz), so I hope the monitor can handle that😁
@@meiklman The latter was a really cheap monitor included with a equally cheap desktop for free, so I guess them only supporting the monitor`s native resolution and nothing more must have cut their cost by like 50p XD
good thing you got out of that interlaced resolution I would’ve shat myself if that happened to me. great video 👍
I love that your high color example image was o town haha!
*256-color, not high-color.
OS/2 Warp was really good. Only thing that annoyed me back in the day was that if you touched ctrl-alt-del, it instantly rebooted your pc, no questions asked.
Linux does this too (by default), it's a fun thing for windows people.
Then don't touch Ctrl-Alt-Del!
@@vwestlife well, that key combination WAS the 'reset' for DOS, anyway! cant remember what happens in win 3.1 .... ?! might try it tonight, i have a dell latitude 450c laptop with win3.11 for workgroups on it, ex British Rail !
@@andygozzo72 in Windows 3.1/3.11 you get a lovely blue screen
@@alexsutton85 yep, so i saw, and can press again to do a reset or go back to windows ...
nice work MacGyver!
1:19 I knew of DDC but Today I Learned of the power supply to an EPROM which does what you said. Wow, that’s cool 😎
"Comments have been disabled" mug is amazing. :D
Great fix nice and simple solution .
Careful The 8-Bit Guy might see this.
Or you can just drill a hole with a very fine bit. That's what I did on my Olivetti PC.
Thats really neat i didnt know they had a different pin out. Love that cup you zoomed in on then came slowly back out that was really good. Ive never seen os/2. Only thing about some vintage computers if i have a way to use it i would . I have alot of games and some operating systems given to me. Windows me 2000 xp professional some windows xp plus disk its a good stuff just funny windows xp blue screens if you try running on my 2011 toshibia satellite laptop lol. But 7 8 10 Linux run fine . im assuming because of the Intel I3 processor. Xp goes nope not running here lol
Really interesting Kevin I have some vintage machines and your video is a good remember for that
The internet: You're not supposed to use paperclips on PCs! Arrrrgh, what are you doing?!!
VWestlife: 😛
Paper clips are the best tool ever to remove a jammed floppy disk from an older Mac.
On a power pin, no less! haha
I have tried to use a knife in the past, this looks easier.
I haven't needed to do this with VGA connectors yet, but it also works if you want to use new IDE cables with old I/O cards.
Can't wait to see os2 in action.
Thanks for sharing. 😉👌🏻
11:08 - And just like that, "Liquid Dreams" and "Girl" start playing in my head.
Except that those songs are from their first album, and I showed the cover of their follow-up, "O2".
Everything can be solved with fire.... and if it can't you need more fire haha great video as always
I saw the mug and had to come check
Candy coated paper clips are a thing!?!? Don’t tell Adrian Black!
Haribo Gummy Clips :P
It would be very interesting if you can get os2 to function online too
A small drill bit also works nicely. (Or, as others have pointed out, if you're feeling brave and/or stupid, you can just ram the connector in and hope for the best. The "missing" hole is usually thinner plastic than the rest, which is probably why you can do that and usually get away with it,.)
OS/2 really _was_ a better DOS and Windows, at least until Microsoft pulled the rug out from OS/2's implementation of Win32s. IBM's own arrogance at the time sure didn't help either. ("People will buy it because it's from IBM.") The Corrective Service Facility tool (for Fixpaks) is also a less than user friendly pain. (Someone did package it and the Fixpaks up in an easy to use format, though I don't know if those are still around.)
There's an archive of all of the OS/2 3.0 fixpaks ever released (up to the year 2000). It's larger than the operating system itself!
The way I solved this problem for my IBM WheelWriter 50 was to just use some needle nose pliers to pull out the pin from the monitor.
Very interesting 🧐
BTW - you could also pull the XGA-2 adapter, bump up the planar VRAM to 512Kb (soldering!), and install the VESA driver to unlock all the SVGA goodness built into the 8556/8557!
I have a Sansui flatscreen TV that is native 720p and I use it as my computer monitor at 1366x768 16X9 resolution and all my games seem happy. Sometimes you have to change settings but I have the resolution printed on a small label on my screen.
"Modern" VGA conector. Love it
To be fair, I think he said "more modern".
At the time of the CRT endgame, I used VGA to feed 1600x1200 to DELL 21" monitors, and if you didn't use high-quality cables, the picture looked like shit from all the ringing and ghosting and interference.
I did something similar, I just used the tip of the paperclip like a drill bit after snipping a bit off to get a blade-like end, and then just wound it into the plastic 'til it cut its' way through and sorted, a more modern LCD worked with the old laptop with a dead screen... :P
btw, maybe i watched some old cam, electronic and vintage pc stuffs in your channel , every time i see something like old video camera in movie , first thing popup in my head : "that vwestlife guy probably got one"always,just like recently a tv series "archive 81" on netflix, in this tv show, that old sony video camera shown in every episode, was a SONY HI8 CAM or somethings.
@ 2:48 simple genius
I like the cup.
I recall having a video card with this pin blocked out, way back in the day. Never understood why they'd take the extra step of blocking the single hole.
Keying to prevent insertion of an electrically incompatible plug that uses the same connector. IBM probably had (or had planned) some other thing using the same HD-15 connector.
@@tookitogo Or were just futureproofing, given how the DB-9 connectors used by MDA, CGA, and EGA video were also used by 9-pin serial and some networking cables. "We'll key the VGA jack, in case something else uses a DE-15 connector someday."
@@AaronOfMpls Indeed!
It’s giving me flashbacks to the 8 bit guy once! 😂
good old times, where you had to restart each time
I was just thinking there's probably an .ini file that could be parsed to get back to a lower resolution.
It's ye old ye fix ye computer by candlelight.
Jet lighters do a fantastic job of heating the wire.
I always thought that VGA remained a key pin but I guess I'm wrong. Oh my gosh that photo in paint looks photo shopped!
Directions unclear, ate the candy coated paper clips. Mouth is now bleeding.
*The 8-Bit Guy has entered the chat*
Hi dude! Are you still using an old macbook to edit your videos? cheers from italy!
ive overclocked a cheap hp lcd monitor. i could feel the difference.
Weird, our Tesco had ton of newly made VGA cables without pin 9...
What was the point of blocking off the hole rather than just not using it? Were there other devices using that connector? Was it a proprietary thing?
why didn't you try to adjust only the frequency for the high resolution?
I'Ve done that also with IDE/Floppy cables and so on.
With all this stuff I’ve been hearing about most new cassette players using a bad cheap mechanism, what device would you recommend I get for making MP3 rips of cassette tapes? I have some story cassettes from my childhood that I’ve yet to see online uploads of.
This tutorial came at the same moment I needed it for one of my old IBM pcs in my godown which I needed for some softwares to run and I was afraid to that thing even tho I knew it wouldn't break anything but after I watched this I had some courage and did it. While I expect big youtubers to be like yea we used a $90,000 cnc router for exact measurments COUGH COUGH linus COUGH COUGH
📎 _Hey! It looks like you're writing a letter!_
To go from interlaced to progressive, you have to half the refresh/frame rate, not double it. So 60hz interlaced would be 30hz progressive.
In this case the signal is 89.4 interlaced fields per second or 44.7 frames per second.
That's not true. To go from interlaced to progressive you have exactly the same field rate, you just exclusively send odd fields instead of alternating between odd/even. So in fact you are doubling frame rate.
This is because the only thing that makes a video signal interlaced or not is the timing of the final video line. If the v sync pulse happens half way through the final line, then the next field will be vertically offset. The refresh rate and horizontal scanning rate are exactly the same, the monitor cannot tell the difference at all.
@@vwestlife I think you said it backwards in the video. it was 44.7 interlaced fields which would make it effectively 22.35 frames a second, de-interlaced.
@@kyle8952 To convert from interlaced to progressive, you merge the even and odd fields to form one full frame, effectively halving your field rate to your new frame rate.
If you only sent the odd or even fields, you'd literally have half a picture with stripes running through it.
So 60hz interlaced, would become 30fps progressively/non-interlaced.
This is why everything in broadcast is recorded at either 60i or 30p.
@@Nabeelco No, I'm right. IBM used Hz to refer to the number of complete frames per second, not the number of interlaced fields per second. For example, their 8514/A graphics standard was 43.5 Hz which equals 87 interlaced fields per second: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8514
I forgot about this. My mouse is not recognized and scan shows cable disconnect. The PS/2 port for keyboard works, disabled number lock keys etc. Mouse cursor just sit there. Will try fire and paper clip before checking if this is some sort of scamware ( Windows) as my port was breaking wiggle ly. Thanks
Can I use candy-coated paperclips if I eat the candy coating off them first?
"He could fix a supercomputer with a paperclip." ~ The Truth from GTA San Andreas
that comments are disabled mug is beautiful
Who else checked if the comments were disable or not?
Granted, fire is cool and all, but why not find a drill bit close in size to the pin and drill it by hand with a pin vice?
I´ve always removed the pin from the connector, I don´t need its function.
The sound of those buckling springs took me off-guard. (05:10)
Whats the source for the last segment? I'd love to watch the full video :D
Click on the card that pops up when the clip starts playing.
Yum I love candy coated paper clips.
Hey there folks. I have a question a bit out of context. Can I put a straight tonearm’s cartridge on a turntable with curved tonearm, keeping in mind that both turntable from DUAL. Thank you.
The cartridge itself is the same. It's the angle of the headshell that's different.
I've made it for everal systems, including IBM PS/2 Model 40sx)