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Need info on video cam. viewfinders

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From: Peter F. McDermott
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:56
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  Hello everyone!  I'm working (slowly working anyway) on building a Head
Mounted Display (HMD) for messing around with some virtual reality.  I 
have worked out some plans for a circut to split the VGA signals created
by my computer to get a brightness output and the horizontal and vertical
outputs to each one of these two viewfinders I bought at an Electronics 
shop.  Basically the red goes to one eye, the green to another, copy the
syncs.  Anyway, the problem I am having is that I have no idea what the 
pin connections are on the view finders I bought (hey, for $4 a pop, ya
can't go wrong).  These are somewhat standard looking panasonic video
camera viewfinders with the lenses, plastic case, little B/W tv and a 
circut board.  The only thing I have to go by is the serial number on the
circut board.  It has the little Matsushita symbol all over it and the 
following numbers:
  VRYD150J5B (on the front and back)
  GCMK-20X   (on the back)
There are two green connectors coming off of the circut board.  One
has three wires and the other has 9 wires.
There's also a metal box (some sort of shielding I suppose) that has 
the following number on it:
  X-C0079S and then 62 03101 below it.

Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.  Oh, how many scan lines?

						Peter McDermott
						pmcdermo@cs.utexas.edu

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Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:56:21 -0600
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Keywords: Matsushita, Virtual Reality, Head Mounted Display