Mac Question

[Jomama]

Someone gave me a Mac Performa 6200CD (Power Mac)
It seems to work, except the monitor is dead. No power light.
Can I use a PC monitor? Both of them have 15 pin DINS but the pin arrangment is different. Maybe I just answered my own question.
Anybody know for sure?

[Force Flow]

I believe macs only have DVI output. You can connect a PC monitor to it that has a DVI connection (LCD monitors), or get a DVI to VGA adapter, and connect a monitor that way.

[kram 2.0]

I'm not even sure there is a DVI port...last time I looked, it was a special Apple cable showing an uncanny resemblence to a Firewire (1394) cord. There is, however, an adapter that allows that to switch into many ports such as DVI, VGA, S Video, etc - it comes with the iBook so I'm sure it's on sale as an accessory.

kram

[csp]

Yeah, an old one like that would be able to use a pc monitor with vga

[Jomama]

I searched for a Mac Monitor and they were outrageous. so I came upon a refurbished 17" NEC at microcenter (about 10 minutes away) 90 bucks with a 40 dollar rebate. Cool.
Went down and picked it up. Got it home and it had a PC interface. Dang.
Searched again and found there is a Mac to VGA interface, $5 somewhere.
Went back to microcenter and found one with 10 bit switches and the right connectors on each end. $14.00 but who can wait.
Figured the switch part out hooked it all up and ran a smoke test.
Its cooking! A full 75 MHz. 64 megs of RAM, (maxed out) a 1 Gig IDE HD (but i'll fix that real quick). A bunch of software including Doom.
Next I will get an ethernet card for it and put it on the nw.
I am retireing a P133 that was acting as a print server but I picked up this Axis print server an few months ago and finally had the incentive to put the HP on that and take the P133 out of the picture. Ill put the Mac in its place.
This is what I call a computer game!

[IntegraGSR]

Besides ADC monitors, there are "Apple" monitors? I thought they all used standard VGA out since the first tower model. The newer models have DVI out that require an adapter, yes, and I suppose there are a few that require a small adapter. Cool that you got things working

[Mac Medic]

The Performa series came with Apple VGA and an adaptor to us standard VGA. The last generation of Powermac's used ADC (apple display connector) this allowed power, video, firewire & USB across 1 cable. The also had a standard VGA port. The new G5 powermacs use ADC or DVI and cone with a VGA adaptor. It would seem that you need the VGA-Apple VGA adaptor.