Re: Old iMac AV to VGA

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From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 12:09:10 PDT

At 11:01 -0700 2002-10-17, David JL Rieger wrote:
>I've a user who has an old iMac (way back to '99) that wants to
>connect it (with a USB port) to a regular VGA LCD projector -
>Scholars Workstation said the cable they peddle is for "newer macs
>only" (Apple# M8434G/A).

At 11:54 -0700 2002-10-17, David JL Rieger wrote:
>I've since found out it can't be done. Newer iMacs have A/V out but
>these ye old iMacs (dating to '99) can't do it.

   There *may* be one possibility: Griffin's iPort adapter ($59) adds
an external VGA out port, as well as a serial port, to the earliest
(Rev. A and B) iMacs:

     http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/gport/iport.html

   Installation of this adapter isn't trivial, however. It apparently
requires at least partial removal of the system board, however, as
noted in the following reviews (both of late pre-production adapters):

     http://www.macsonly.com/iport.html
     http://www.theimac.com/news/excl/58.shtml

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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