ADC from vid card to a VGA 2nd display, out of stock?

We have an old quicksilver G4 800 mhz tower that a co-worker wants to have a 2nd display attached to. The card has 2 outputs, a VGA and an ADC. About a year ago, I went to our local Apple Reseller (not an apple store) and bought a ADC to VGA adaptor for 30 bucks (for another machine in use). It was by Dr. Bott. There is nothing on their website now. Dr. Bott service stated that Apple had something to do with the discontinued status? Locked down their technology?
Some site show any ADC to VGA adaptor discontinued.
What is up?
Alternatives? Should I just get a new cheap graphics card? or are there ther alternatives. Yes, this is old technology, and we will get new computers, but we will have this machine a few more years...
Thanks for any help
Mac Pro 2.66 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Apple did not try to stop others from using ADC. They made it an open standard, but few other manufacturers used it. Formac did make a LCD display with ADC. Most display makers didn't want to make models that would only work with a Mac, even though it would be cheaper (no power supply needed). Other computer makers didn't use it because they would need bigger power supplies (Apple made a CRT with ADC that needed 113 watts), adapters would be needed for most displays, and they would need special graphics cards. Because of lack of demand from other computer makers, no graphics card maker made any ADC cards for non-Apple computers.
Apple dropped AC for several reasons:
Multiple displays were being used more, and there was only one ADC per computer. DVI to ADC adapters are expensive and messy.
They wanted to sell their displays to non-Mac users.
Bigger displays needed more power (30" needs 150 watts)
With their main customer gone, the connector maker dropped the connectors, so adapter makers have no more parts for the adapters. Adapters are now scarce and expensive, but it's not Apple's fault.
There are still a few ADC to VGA adapters for sale:
<http://www.mac-pro.com/s.nl/it.A/id.230/.f?sc=2&category=128>
<http://www.welovemacs.com/mcaadcvga.html>
If the Quicksilver is the earlier (2001) model, such as the dual 800 Mhz, the adapter won't be useful with any of the graphic cards that originally came with it. It will work with 2002 Quicksilvers, such as the single 800MHz.

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Oh please provide your full system spec
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Hi
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Hi,
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