Apple PC Compatibility Card - Manual (Page 128)

Connecting two monitors to your Power Macintosh 8500
To connect two monitors to your Power Macintosh 8500, follow these steps
using your loopback cable:
You can leave the long connector unplugged. Or, if you have a video card and
want one monitor to switch between the Mac OS and PC environments, you
can plug the long connector into the video card port.
Plug the middle
connector on the
loopback cable into
the left port on the
PC Compatibility Card.
This connector has a
triple row of pins and
an Apple (K) icon on
either side.
Plug the monitor you
want to use for the
Mac OS environment
into the built-in monitor
port (™) on the back
of your computer.
Plug the short
connector on the
loopback cable into the
second monitor’s cable.
This connector has an
Apple (K) icon on one
side and a monitor (™)
icon on the other.
Long connector
Mac OS PC
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