mrcity
Experienced Member
Hello folks, I've got an AT&T 6300 WGS that I'm looking to kit out with the period AT&T-ness to go along with. Inside the machine is a VDC400 video card, which seems to be a CGA-compatible card with the 25-pin connector that mates quite nicely with my two AT&T CRT-313-B monitors. (FWIW, the two big changes I've noticed from the plain 6300 are that the WGS has done away with the proprietary 16-bit ISA (where the 62-pin and 38-pin parts are completely different connectors) in favor of strictly 8-bit ISA, and that the battery is on a totally separate board from the motherboard. This makes it more in-line with an Olivetti M240 rather than an M24.)
Only problem is, neither of my 313-Bs actually light up. Neither of them has a separate power plug, so the power must be provided through the 25-pin cable from the video card.
Here's what I've tried:
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Only problem is, neither of my 313-Bs actually light up. Neither of them has a separate power plug, so the power must be provided through the 25-pin cable from the video card.
Here's what I've tried:
- My VDC400 is plugged into a special power rail from the PSU that provides 15V. At first, I noticed the 15V pin on the connector was open, so I replaced a pico fuse right in front of it, and now the 15V pin is back in business, but no luck with the monitors. The AT&T 6300 manual states the importance of the 15V line for running monochrome monitors.
- I have set the DIP sockets in accordance with the Olivetti M240 manual, and even tried iterating through every available video mode, but nothing helped.
- I installed a typical IBM MDA card and configured the DIP sockets accordingly (not requiring the 15V rail, of course), and saw correct system output on my IBM 5151.
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