ThinkPad T60p 2nd monitor mod

I'm thinking of buying another T60p monitor and figuring out how to splice it to a VGA connector. Is there someone who has modded this or done something similar with laptop monitors that could give me some adivce on it? (Advice to not do it doesn't count)

dhinged wrote:
Advice to not do it doesn't count
dhinged wrote:
Nobody's modded a ThinkPad?
Perhaps the silence you got above is was the best advice after all
I'm no expert on this but since an LCD panel is digital while the VGA interface is analog you'd need something more than splicing to the VGA connector, i.e. some sort of analog/digital converter.
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