[3]: 176 [4][5]: 43  Among its primary users included Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics (SGI) and IBM (the latter for use with their RISC workstations),[3]: 176 [6]: 281, 305  as well as some displays from Apple,[7] NeXT and Intergraph.

[6]: 286 Implementations of this connector in terms of pin-out varied widely, not only between different vendors but also between different families of workstations within the same company.

When used for video signals on the computer side, the pins are female but the coaxial connectors in the large positions are male.

Likewise, later-generation Sun monitors, which began supporting multisync in 1998, can be connected via similar cables to personal computers.

Sun, Intergraph, IBM and SGI each use different pin configurations for the monitor sense ID and sync signals.