lcd connector?

[dowmace]

I have an lcd that is hd44780 but I don't wanna cutup my printer cable to use it, it has a connector that looks like this http://www.angelfire.com/extreme2/tricks/use_this_lcd_pic.jpg

can I buy a controller card or something for it?

[dowmace]

um anyone? )))bump(((

[rogerdugans]

That looks the same as I remember mine looking......and I removed that and wired it up to an old printer cable that I hacked up.


Mine came from an old Compaq server cube case.

Sorry amigo, but I think you'll either need to hack up a printer cable OR get hold of a bare connector and wire it up yourself.

[dowmace]

crap I had the printer connector but I reallt didn't want to do any soldering, ah well guess Im gonna have to, thanks for the info

[four4875]

that is a plug like off of a dongle cable. if your motherboard has a header for it.. is it serial or paralell, tho?

[dowmace]

I think it's a serial connector but I have no idea how it connects

[_slh_]

some old AT motherboards had the serial and parallel ports on cables plugged into headers on the board. It probably plugged into something similar.

[rogerdugans]

Slightly bigger than a serial header connector, right?

As I said, the one I have had a proprietary connector to a pcb that also had the on/off and reset buttons, speaker and a few more things mounted to it. It is a proprietary connector for the LCD and won't work connecting to anything else without modification, I believe.

Not big enough to fit on a mobos parallel header either- even if you have a mobo with a parallel port header.