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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-06 16:19:30
Just got this off a guy who wanted to give it a good home for free. Have not even got it home yet to test but I am stoked. That full page apple display looks cool. I needed a IIci to compliment my si and now I have one!
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Posted by: fairchild on 2012-10-06 18:26:30
congrats! they are really nice looking machines!
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-06 19:50:30
Congrats, portraits are the bomb, but they're a little too tall sitting on top of the IIx/IIci for my neck-strain.
Your IIsi would make a handy base for the portrait, put your IIci into MiniTower mode next to it and KVM the two IIs to the Portrait and a single KBD/Mouse for a nice desktop PlayStation.
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Posted by: volvo242gt on 2012-10-06 22:08:45
Is it the Radius Color Pivot? Got one of those today in the latest conquest adventure. Connected it to my spare IIci. Nice monitor. In portrait mode, it's 640x870. In landscape mode, it becomes the equivalent of a 16" monitor, so 832x624.
-J
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-07 10:04:03
I haven't even plugged it in, I am not sure. I have the video card for it but not sure. I didn't even ask lol, I was too excited getting the Mac. He also gave me an external scsi CDROM (caddy style) and a syquest 88mb drive with disks.
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Posted by: volvo242gt on 2012-10-07 11:12:35
Anyway, cool score... If you've some free time this afternoon, go have some fun with your new acquisition. If the sound is barely audible at full volume, it's time to recap the motherboard. Tantalum caps are your friend.
-J
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-07 13:15:50
Apple only ever made (Radius OEM'd it for Apple) the one Portrait Monitor, no swivel base, it's a IICX topper.
That's an interesting point about the Pivot, I've never heard that little tidbit before, which Pivot and Card combo do you have, or is it the VGA version?
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Posted by: volvo242gt on 2012-10-07 13:33:15
^ It's the LE version. Came with the Radius Color Pivot video card. Does have a VGA port on the back of the monitor itself, but the cable goes from VGA to Mac RGB DB-15...
-J
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-07 17:07:10
The video card says raster ops for II portrait display. The portrait display is black and white and when I open the monitor control panel it says its goes 4 shades under black and white and 4 in color. There are some open chip slots on the card but the monitor is black and white so no need to mess with it. Has a cache card in it. Boots fast under 7.1 8 Meg's of ram but hard drive was dead had a spare of course. Also has Ethernet card so that's cool. Volume is great no leakage I can see on the board, o e question tho where is the pram battery? Is it under the power supply or the floppy?
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Posted by: beachycove on 2012-10-07 18:27:34
The Portrait Monitor is greyscale, so there is point in fiddling further.
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-07 18:33:03
What does the big nameplate on the back of the monitor say? Is the connector standard Mac DA-19 or the weird lookin' 13W3?
Black and white and grayscale have been use synonymously/confused since day one. Black and white is single bit, grayscale ramps from there up to 8-bit/256 shades of gray, which is what Apple's Macintosh Portrait Display is capable of doing. If the slots on your RasterOps card were full it'd probably do better than two-bit grayscale.
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Posted by: LOOM on 2012-10-07 18:46:01
Some sources say it works with machines that uses DB-15 cables("Quadra & Centris series supports any display"), some say it uses a 13W3. Do they come in two different versions? Which computer uses 13W3?
Does it really weight 35 lb./16 kg?
Edit: By this picture it looks like it came in two versions?
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Posted by: oldappleguy on 2012-10-07 20:17:23
Apple made a cable that was db-15 on one end 13w3 on the other end
590-0615
I have the tilt swivel base for it
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-07 21:37:59
That's the cable I have, db15 with the 13 3 on the other.
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Posted by: oldappleguy on 2012-10-07 21:44:15
I also have the cable with the 3w3 on both ends
590-0574
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Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-10-07 22:01:01
Is the tilt and swivel base an Apple product or a second source product? Piccies please! :beige:
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Posted by: oldappleguy on 2012-10-07 23:15:41
Its the apple made base
it fit both the 13 inch color display and the full page
I have a few of these
i will pm you about price
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Posted by: krye on 2012-10-10 08:40:39
Pics, pics, pics! I love the portrait displays. I've always wanted one.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-10-10 12:06:24
The web site won't allow my iPhone pics, if I put it on Facebook can I bring a format over that will work?
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