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osx mac but no monitor
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I have just acquired an old mac running osx but I dont know more than that. I have a laptop running win2kpro, is there any way to connect them together so i can get into the mac and connect it directly to my network. I there any way of using the laptop as a monitor for the mac?
The only other thing I can think of is I have an old crt at work can I connect this?
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unless it's a very old mac, it should have a standard VGA connector that your CRT monitor would connect to...
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Originally Posted by will2b 
I have just acquired an old mac running osx but I dont know more than that. I have a laptop running win2kpro, is there any way to connect them together so i can get into the mac and connect it directly to my network. I there any way of using the laptop as a monitor for the mac?
The only other thing I can think of is I have an old crt at work can I connect this?
1 - You can directly connect the two using ethernet, but you'll need to setup filesharing and IP addresses on the mac, which will require booting it up with a screen first. Most methods of remote access into OS X are going to be disabled by default for security reasons.
2 - Laptops don't (generally) contain video input, so you're probably out of luck in terms of using the laptop as a monitor.
3 - The mac probably has either a DVI, VGA ( http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/imageview.php?image=884) or an ADC connector. DVI is cheap and easy to convert, but ADC (which looks like DVI, but has more rounded connectors) is more difficult.
What does this machine look like? Is it a blue and white tower, or is it more grey/silver?
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To find out which mac you have, go the the Apple menu, to the far left of the menu bar and click on the first item, 'About this mac'. It will tell you which one you have and if you click on 'more' you can pretty much found out every thing about the hardware and software.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by jmiddel
To find out which mac you have, go the the Apple menu, to the far left of the menu bar and click on the first item, 'About this mac'. It will tell you which one you have and if you click on 'more' you can pretty much found out every thing about the hardware and software.
How exactly do you propose he do that without hooking up a monitor?
Because the question of which Mac this is only came up because it wasn't clear how to hook up his old CRT?
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