I did try the pinout backward, just to see if it would work, the way it is displayed in the manual is backwards compared to how most people would read it.
I have tried several of the camera, just to make sure that I wasn't testing a bad one. I am using a old sony trinitron monitor for testing the resolution sucks but I tried a couple of my standard cameras and they work just fine on it.
I didn't get any of the orginal cables with them. Today I am going to take a few apart and try to trace the circuit board, but with wiring diagrams I can read just about anything. Circuit diagrams are another story.
Hopefully if I can ever get them to work, I want to install some of them as web cams. I done several with other cams. Anybody can check them out on www.toledozoo.org. I will apologize ahead of time for the Hippo cam the water is very dirty we have had alot of rain lately.
Thanks,