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Macintosh Classic Portrait Display?
Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-02-09 15:18:02
Hey folks.

A couple of months ago I stumbled across an ad for a working Mac Classic with a Samsung Portrait display. The seller advertised it at 200€, then the price dropped once, then twice. The computer was still available a month ago (and it probably still is), the price is now 120€.

I contacted the seller, he said he deleted a lot of personal data on the Hard drive, including all of the extensions/control panels etc... So the display doesn't work anymore... (How did it work in the first place you might ask? Well, it disabled the internal 9 inch crt and everything popped up on the big external monitor)

I'd like to know what kind of card is in that Classic. Maybe I can find drivers for it?

I think it might be a RasterOps FDP-Classic, but where can I find the driver for that card? I know Rasterops made one driver (RasterOps Graphics Install) which worked with a lot of their cards (most of them are NuBus), but what about this one??

Could it be something else? I don't think the Radius Full Page display was ever released for the Classic...

Unfortunately, that's about all I have...

Any help appreciated!
Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-02-12 10:34:36
no idea?
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-12 11:32:13
Use a file recovery utility on the HDD, maybe he wasn't very good/knowledgeable about the process. [}🙂] ]'> Hopefully you haven't touched it yet.
Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-02-12 11:54:13
Nope, the computer is in Reims, about 100mls from where I live, so I haven't touched it, yet. Otherwise I would have taken it apart to see what's inside...

I think he did what most people would have done, i.e. dragging every unwanted item to the trash before emptying it. Maybe he reformatted the hard drive? No, I don't think so, you can't format the startup disk and he has no floppies so can't be done.

Are files recoverable? What's the best utility? I have used Norton Utilities in the past but just for backups etc... 
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2017-02-12 12:54:07
HEH! No idea huh? 😀

Haven't done it in a very long time, so I'm wondering the same thing myself. I wonder if hooking it up to a SCSI card in a < shudders > MAC using a recovery utility under OS-X might be advantageous?

My money is on Alsoft's DiskWarrior, it's by far the best Disk Repair Utility I've ever used, better even than HDT and that's really saying something.
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