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Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Aside from the first-gen Power Macs, which used NuBus, Power Macs generally had PCI slots.

The guy with a Power Mac G4 in the article definitely has PCI slots.

Can probably just put an old video card in the thing.

googles

Yeah.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7937922

Alternately, you could go with an older, slower, possibly cheaper PCI video card as well. You could use a PCI video in combination with the AGP card. Not sure if the AGP card is missing, if you can run with a PCI video only.

ATI made a couple of PCI Radeon cards for Mac, 7000 and 9200, I think, with VGA & DVI outputs. Might be hard to find these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I had a radeon 7000 PCI card back in the day, it was a steaming pile.