Old Compaq Contura Aero

[BogdanV]

Quite a rarity I think, considering the low production numbers it had.

Anyway, I'm atempting to bring this grandpa to a useful state (replace battery, fit a new HDD, etc) and while studying it, this jack came to my attention :

It looks like a DVI jack but it sure isn't. Anyway, from the scraps of documentation I've found on the net, the laptop should be having a video-out connector. That would be really cool as staring into a monochrome LCD takes away what little fun there still is in the likes of DOOM I.

Does anyone recognise this connector type and tell me what its for ? Thanks.

[jaclaz]

Is your Google broken?

http://ro.lmgtfy.com/?q=Compaq+Contura+Aero

Here:

http://www.zenspider.com/~pwilk/aero/pinout.html

http://www.zenspider.com/~pwilk/aero_stuff.html

jaclaz

[BogdanV]

) And thats ownage to me! Well, I don't know if I've been smoking pot or something, but honestly I've been searching for the past time and I couldn't find anything about this jack. Actually, anything about any of the laptop's jacks. I'm not the kind of guy to quickly post in a forum for plain simple questions as I don't have the patience to wait for a reply, but this time I got owned.

Anyway, guess that jack's for the docking station judging from the pin assignments, so this gives me two options :

1.Either I make a adaptor for just the video pins

OR

2.Find a docking station. (which is preferable, but not so likely to happen as ebay doesn't seem to have one and amazon, if I remember, doesn't work for my country)

Alas, thanks for the links, I'll bookmark them !

[jaclaz]

I'm not the kind of guy to quickly post in a forum for plain simple questions as I don't have the patience to wait for a reply, but this time I got owned.

Yep, but don't worry, I was just joking.

I'll give you another tip, see if the misterious connector has a "proper" name:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=8706&hl=

it does look like a LFH60, but cannot say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Force_Helix

Matrox cables appear to be differently mapped:

http://pinouts.ru/VideoCables/matrox_lfh60_pinout.shtml

but maybe you can find and adapt some "surplus" cable...

jaclaz