Just Recived A Power Mac G3 From A Friend, Need Help

Ok so about a week ago I got a power mac g3 and wanted to hook it to a vga monitor but saw there was a different connection(15 pin), so I tried hooking it up to tv through composite video but that didn't work. Mostly my question is: How can I hook my power mac g3 to the tv if I do not have a monitor to set up mirroring. All responses are helpful!

Hi, imac4567 -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Assuming the graphics card in your B&W G3 is the original one, its connector is a D-sub-15 connector. Most VGA/SVGA monitors use a DB-15 connector.
This is discussed on page 22 of the user's manual for that model. You can download a PDF copy of it from here -
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50122
- it's the first item in the list, #034-0687.
If you need an adapter and did not get the one that originally came with that machine, you can probably get one from places like MacWarehouse, MacZone, or MacConnection.

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