First post, by Hamby
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In another thread, I linked to a G3 iMac teardown video.
While watching that video, the question popped into my head, "What if you have an otherwise dead iMac; could you use its CRT with a vintage PC? They had such beautiful displays, and I think they all were VGA (including external VGA connector). One would have to give it a new power supply, and fit it into some kind of case for safety's sake... but then you'd have a really good display for your vintage PC.
The question then occurred to me; what about other Mac displays? Could a classic Mac CRT be used as a replacement for a Compaq portable's built-in monitor, or vice versa?
I'd be loathe to sacrifice one vintage, historically valuable computer to repair another, but if it was otherwise dead, anyway...
Is this something that should be dead obvious, or completely unworkable?