iMac, meet display

By Dave Caolo

The other day
I posted about a reader who had removed the dead display from a Powerbook, and then connected it to an external display. While writing, I thought,
"Well I have an old 333mhz iMac in the basement with a dead display. I wonder..."

I
opened up the iMac and removed the display connector. I attached an Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display, booted the iMac and ta-da! It worked. When set to a resolution of 800x600, it looked perfect. See the picture to the right.

I've since put the iMac under my work bench like a PC tower (upside down, since the bottom is off), with the big,
17" CRT above. New life for an old Mac! Next I'm going to put a hole in the bottom plastic so I can sit that iMac right side up. More pictures after the jump.

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