Best of luck with your "new" mac. The mac-vga adapters do work quite well. I've used mine with my LC II, and powermac 6100. Any old CRT/LCD with a vga port should work fine. That said, my 19" samsung monitor (~2004) doesn't like it. So, try to find a monitor that's (at least for LCDs) around 14"/15" or less and that supports at least a minimum resolution of 800x600. If it's a widescreen or has a dvi port it may not work at all since it simply may not support a low enough resolution. VGA/DVI adapters don't have any fancy circuitry (as I understand), so if you have a dvi only monitor that fits the other criteria you could try it (although you'd need a vga-dvi adapter). Also, some adapters have a bunch of dip switches, and unless it's comes with a reference sheet like mine did (and maybe even still) you may have to fiddle with a number of different configurations of the switches before you find one that produces a sharp-ish display without any horizontal or vertical wobble. The refresh rate that the monitor supports may also be an issue. I assume that anything that supports 60hz+ should be fine.
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:15:31 AM UTC-4, James Fraser wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am in the market for a 68k Mac, preferably one of the later ones, and > I've found a nice cheap Performa > > 630CD on eBay, > > When you say, "cheap," does factoring in the cost of shipping still keep > the machine in the Bargain Basement range? > > I ask because, with a lot of older machines, it's not the initial price > tag that's noteworthy: it's the cost of shipping the thing across a few > states that can suddenly turn what seems initially to be a perfectly > affordable proposition into a clippy one. > > > Best, > > James Fraser > > > > > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
