PS2 in an elderly Mac monitor

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PS2 in an elderly Mac monitor

I have a Mac branded monitor, circa 1999. Very large, and very beige with a standard, fifteen pin conection. (Two rows, uppermost eight pins, lower seven). It should be very simple to adapt it to a modren VGA display connector (fifteen pins, three rows). There is a small, round, black port on the back, which looks like an S-Video input. Is it? If it is, how difficult would it be to install an older style PS2 in the monitor.

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The port on the back is for A

The port on the back is for ADB, Apple's old keyboard/mouse interface. Those monitors had ADB hubs built into them.

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Sorry, but it's a Mac Din-8 s

Sorry, but it's a Mac Din-8 serial port, intended for monitor calibration. It looks like s-video, but it's not.

Some of the Apple monitors do have ADB on them as well, as Dr. Webster mentions, but that won't help you either.

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not s-video

Doc Webster and eeun are both right (or wrong, depending on how you look at it Blum 3 ), some had ADB ports and/or serial ports, but none had an s-video input.

dan k

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