Congrats on the plus, and welcome :).

I had a little look around online about the possibilities of connecting old laptop LCD's to VGA/Mac monitor ports - what would be nicer than a cheap, 2nd hand LCD as a second monitor!. However the big setback seems to be that the LCD is driven directly digitally, whereas the external monitor ports on powerbook VGA has been converted from this digital signal to one compatible with a VGA monitor... apparently you'd need to built a vga->digital converter again to use this... or supply the digital info direct to the laptop's display, from the computer you're using it on - but then, that signal is going to depend on what kind of LCD it is, and may need processing also.

Having said all that and sounding really negative - I did find a site where a fellow had succesfully done it with a PC laptop screen, but he was a pretty qualified logic engineer and it all went over my head!

Pity - all those dead laptops with perfectly working screens you could go sticking in pluses, classics, se's... *grin*

dana (there's too much theory in this post... theoretically)

there are drivers to use pc serial mice (if that's what yours is) on macs, the db-9 to din-8 converter from an old palm mac kit would work (might need a gender changer, mine's not available to look), if you've got an extra printer or modem cable you can adapt it with parts from that, pinouts will be available online for the graft or i'll dig out my junk and figure them out if you can't find them and links don't magically appear.

I'd love to see that link too if you still have it available, dana, if not, a list of search parameter suggestions would be a big help.

jt

I think it was a link I had back on my 8100 - long gone bookmarks :D

I did searches on LCD broken laptop vga adaptor - things like that. Do a few searches on things like that and you usually get ideas on what to search for next. It's not something there is a -lot- of info out there on :D

dana