Powerbook 160 Screen problems and file movement

Hey people,
My dad has offered to give my aunt our old Powerbook 160 to keep her occupied while she's at work and we're trying to extract the Star Wars and Star Trek sound files from it to transfer them to my father's PC and my mother's PowerMac 6530.
The trouble is that after we fired it up after sitting for nearly three years, the screen worked for about 10 minutes then went completely wonky. I think the LCD is giving up the ghost after all these years, and we are trying to find an alternate to replacing the screen, like an external monitor, but we're having trouble finding an adapter. Any ideas?

Your aunt must have a really boring workplace if that Mac can keep her amused.
Those mini-15 adapters show up from time to time on eBay. There are several listed there at this writing. It may be part number 590-0831A. They will accept a Mac monitor directly. To use a VGA monitor, you need the correct adapter.
Several posters suggest the swap list at Low End Mac, or the list of used Mac dealers there.
Personal File sharing, which makes moving files a snap using AppleTalk/LocalTalk cabling, first appeared in system 7.1. So a 6500 should be able to share its Hard drive with another Mac using AppleShare (set in the Chooser). Also, these two Macs should be able to share diskettes.

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