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homerjward
May 30, 2005, 11:59 PM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814165001
happened to stumble across that and was wondering what the 2nd monitor connector is (besides vga)


superbovine
May 31, 2005, 12:49 AM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814165001
happened to stumble across that and was wondering what the 2nd monitor connector is (besides vga)

first, answer was wrong i didn't look like picture carefully. looks like it was an older video connection that apple had on some monitors. sorry about that.
tech4all
May 31, 2005, 01:25 AM
It almost looks like one of those old serial ports or something. I think I have one of those on my PC laptop. Although that's a video card.....so I'm probably wrong.
superbovine
May 31, 2005, 01:26 AM
It almost looks like one of those old serial ports or something. I think I have one of those on my PC laptop. Although that's a video card.....so I'm probably wrong.

it actually the exact same size and shape of joystick port on a PC.
homerjward
May 31, 2005, 01:32 AM
it actually the exact same size and shape of joystick port on a PC.
that's what i thought but it can't be :confused:
heyimcamcook
May 31, 2005, 01:34 AM
it said something about "other ports" and an apple-rgb port, although i dont know what that is...but someone probably does, google it or something.
MacCoaster
May 31, 2005, 02:01 AM
Yep, it's an Apple-RGB port. It's the same as VGA except in a two row configuration. Apple used this from the Macintosh II to the beige Power Macs.
homerjward
May 31, 2005, 02:19 AM
Yep, it's an Apple-RGB port. It's the same as VGA except in a two row configuration. Apple used this from the Macintosh II to the beige Power Macs.
cool, thanks. so it's sorta like adc in that it's a proprietary apple monitor port?
x86isslow
May 31, 2005, 02:26 AM
Yep, but the ADC managed to send power through the same cable. There's a outlet on my beige tower to power the monitor, but that still requires two cables.

To use my VGA monitor, I have to use a little converter with tiny switches. Why anyone would want an Apple-RGB card these days is beyond me. Most of those rgb monitors are dead.
Jo-Kun
May 31, 2005, 03:58 AM
if you would have read everything there was in the description (yes that requires scrolling down I now :D) you would find:

Other Ports Apple-RGB (DB-15) wich is the big one...

this schould make sense when reading the specs on a video card & you see VGA & another port wich later is called Apple RGB... sounds like video connection hmmm doesn't look like ADC so could this be an old connection?? yes...

I would like people to think maybe 5sec longer and reading things more closely before posting questions about the obvious...

but maybe I'm being ignorant...

J