RE: ah now I understand the question, Yes my much earlier umax 9600 or clone equivalant to the mac 9500 tsunami mobo. did have a unique mac only monitor plug,and I did use an adaptor to connect it to an nec monitor,if your monitor has this same mac conection,Ive seen Comp-usa still has them with the dip switches in stock.I dont have the part number, I hope this helps On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Adrian Stubbs wrote: > I (original question poser) have a Sawtooth and it is indeed capable > of driving VGA monitors. I guess what I thought is that the old 17 > inch Apple monitor that my bro-in-law is using may not be a regular > VGA monitor. Maybe the years since the clones has addled my brains > but I though in those days Macintosh monitors had different pin > placements than regular "PC" monitors. > > From what others have said it sounds like a simple adaptor is needed. > > -Adrian >