Beige MT & new apple displays

[pry3i]

is it possible to hook a new apple monitor
to an old beige g3 MT? would i need an adapter or other video card???

 

[Arden]

A new video card would be fine, granted that you could find it in PCI form with an ADC or DVI port on the back. The beige G3's still used Apple monitor connections, which was pre-VGA even, so you'd need an Apple-VGA adaptor, then a VGA-DVI or VGA-ADC adaptor, degrading the signal quality greatly. I recommend looking for a good 3rd-party VGA monitor, even if it's not as good as Apple's monitors.

Apple's monitors use ADC, which means only new computers or graphics cards with ADC ports can use them. You can get DVI-ADC adaptors easily, so if you find a PCI graphics card with a DVI port you'll be set.

 

[Finch]

Check out this link on compatibility. No mention of G3's though... http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58692

 

[Arden]

Drop this baby into your G3 and you'll probably be able to hook up a new Apple monitor. If it doesn't have an ADC port (look at Finch's link for a picture), then get a DVI-ADC adaptor.