Old-school Macintosh-to-VGA adapter. Just solve for X, set the right DIP switches and you’re golden. If you’re the happy owner of a vintage Apple system like a 1989 Macintosh ...

I would skip the middle man and go directly from composite / S-video to HDMI. There's tons of cheap adapters that do composite to 720p or 1080p.

For those scouting composite / S-Video outputs, you'll have to cough up $19 in addition to your lappie's purchase price in order to claim a Micro-DVI to Video adapter.

On a yet-older monitor, he faced a SCART adapter. If you’re European, you’ll know these — it’s just composite video with a different connector.

I want to either buy (cheaply) or make a composite to vga adapter so I can plug in my VCR or game systems to a second monitor. I got rid of my VIVO card and want a cheap solution.

An Apple spokesperson told The Verge that Lightning to HDMI and Lightning to VGA cables “will be available in the coming months.” by Sean Hollister Sep 13, 2012, 4:07 PM PDT ...

The Minideck USB-to-DVI / VGA / HDMI (video only) adapter utilizes the DisplayLink DL-195 chip, which provides support for resolutions as high 2,048 x 1,152, so 1080p and 1,920 x 1,200 LCD ...

The Benfei USB-C to VGA adapter costs just £9.99 or $12.99, and offers just VGA – no extra USB-C port for charging at the same time or other standard USB ports. But it does what you need it to do.

The Monitor Adapter could also be used along with new ultra-thin laptops, such as the Lenovo X1 Carbon–which has no HDMI or VGA port–to connect to displays or projectors.

The 30-pin adapter already will come in two variations: a $39 7-inch adapter cable and a $29 stub adapter. Both are listed as shipping in two to three weeks, which would mean around early October.