Trying to us an old VGA power Mac monitor on my 2006 imac

I Thought I had a fix for my quickly dying imac. It's guts are fine but the LCD monitor has developed a form of computer tourets. I've just lost 1/3 of the screen. Tested it out to determine that my graphics card is fine but the monitor is not,
I have a spare vga monitor that I was using on a first generation powermac. I _thought_ i had found the proper connector (mini-dvi to VGA). Tried to connect them today but there's a problem: The pins don't match (the mini-dvi female end can't accept the male vga monitor plug as it's too big and has many more pins than it can accommodate).
HELP!!!!! Is there another adapter required? If so, what's the product number or name?

I'm sorry, but your Mac is way too old to update to Mountain Lion. Look here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5444
Mavericks was released yesterday and Mountain Lion is no longer available in the MAS. You need to be running OSX 10.6.8 in order to have the MAS on your Mac in the first place.
Maybe you should think about investing in a new Mac - or maybe a refurb, if you can't afford a new one, or settle for the OS that you are running now. As far as I know, you cannot buy Tiger which might be the next step up for your machine.

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luisom,
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According to this article:
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Sep 15, 2008 ... You can use an Apple USB modem with any
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Even email and sparse internet activity would be slow.
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Hardware upgrades in RAM chip & hard disk drives are
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the OS X. And Panther is not really adequate today...
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You should check into the available "retail boxed" Tiger
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and now those persons have upgraded to Leopard 10.5.
These should be priced less than online reseller's retail.
In some places, the universal install DVD set is not costly
once you get away from the retail demand. Amazon is a
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matter the version of OSX (or any OS) it would be too slow.
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experience fast broadband or adequate DSL, the necessary
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And the need for this would become painfully clear to even
someone with no credible amount of experience. Anyone
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