On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 14:03 Canada/Eastern, Richard Clark wrote: > i just received as a gift an old Mac performa 460 but no monitor is > there any way i can hook up a regular vga monitor to this machine to > see if it works This was the LCIII+ under another name. No, you can only hook up an older Mac monitor to it (although, if memory serves, there were some monitors that supported Mac video modes, but required an adaptor). Until you get the monitor, plug it in, turn it on -- nice chime, it probably works; ugly chime, it doesn't. f