help to identify a required apple display connector

[britrecko]

i purchased one of the first apple separate display monitors early i the years of 2,000.It was attached to an an Apple laptop long gone for recyling.

I am looking use it with my early 2013 macbookpro retina laptop.Using perhaps to a thunderbolt connector.

The plug has two rows of three by three plugs or prongs sepearted by a space.

Can anyone tell me how and where to look for such an adapter please?

 

[pigoo3]

i purchased one of the first apple separate display monitors early i the years of 2,000.It was attached to an an Apple laptop long gone for recyling.

I am looking use it with my early 2013 macbookpro retina laptop.Using perhaps to a thunderbolt connector.

The plug has two rows of three by three plugs or prongs sepearted by a space.

Can anyone tell me how and where to look for such an adapter please?

Need to know exactly what video connector it has. Does it look like photo #1 or photo #2?

If #1…forget about it.

 

[harryb2448]

Sounds like Apple Direct Connect and as Nick says forget about it. Good last century, past it now. There is not, and I think never was an adapter to connect it to DVD say. Most Macs, G4 Towers, in its day came with dual graphic cards, one ADC and one DVD-I and you selected the one you wanted. Wikpedia tells us about it:-


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Display_Connector

For a laugh enter Apple Direct Connect or ADC into Google. Now an entirely different thing urging you to run to the Apple Store.

 

[britrecko]

thank you very much for your help and advice.the connector is unlike the images. with connectors to thunderbolt so expensive and unobtainable, i will recycle the diplay.

 

[pigoo3]

thank you very much for your help and advice.the connector is unlike the images. with connectors to thunderbolt so expensive and unobtainable, i will recycle the diplay.

Because of the cost of video adapters…and because of the relatively low cost of brand new (or used) monitors…recycling this display (if it's really old) is probably the advice I would have suggested after reading post #1.

But if this monitors video connector is not like in the photos…I would be curious to know/see what it actually is.

Thanks,

- Nick

 

[harryb2448]

Check the photo of an ADC plug right hand side of the Wikpedia link?