I have an lcd, approximately 8 inch VGA monitor (originally a car tv, but it does work as a monitor) it was given to me by one of my friend's dad, and it displays an 800x600 resolution. i have eyeballed the faceplates of both my macintosh SE and CC, and it looks like it would fit in either of them.

the only thing is, i have no idea what brand it is, i just know it is Chinese, and similar ones go for almost $200 on ebay.

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I'm surprised that it is a VGA monitor (and by "VGA" I don't mean simply its resolution, I mean the VGA interface as well). The car-TV monitors I've run into have composite or S-video inputs. Osgeld has mentioned seeing ones with RGB and DVI/HDMI inputs, but these would still require non-trivial amounts of hacking to adapt them to a CC (and the CC itself would still have to be upgraded to provide a VGA-compatible output in any case).

And to answer another question, the inner surface of a compact mac's crt bezel is not all in one plane, unfortunately, so mechanical hacking is needed, too.