The Absolutely Apple Macintosh IIfx

[spiceyokooko]

If you can find an Apple (Radius with a fruity logo) TPD to go with this system it'd be nearly the Apex of Absolutely Apple.

You're absolutely right in both the points you make there Trash. Where I used to work as an Apple Systems Admin was a design studio that had that kind of a set-up in it. I first thought you meant the TPD as a Radius Tilt/Pivot Display, but then my brain kicked into gear and I realised you meant the Apple Twin Page Display.

We had both those in the design studio, although the Radius Pivots were on the IIci's and the TPD on the SE/30. The IIfx I think had originally a 13" Apple RGB colour display but definitely ended up with a Radius 19" Precision Colour Display. We also had IIntx, IIf and IIg laserwriters an AppleOne Scanner and an Apple Tape Backup 40sc! (which I still have!)

So that lovely lot of platinum boxes definitely represents the 'typical' design studio/service bureau of the day.

Cheers!

[CelGen]

Well I do have access to both the Apple Portrait display and the matching Portrait monitor card, however I do not have the authentic Apple 13W3 monitor cable.

[maceffects]

Just wanted to chime in... Totally amazing collection. Such rare items all with on hot rod of a computer. Imagine that setup in the late 80s!! Youd have been king

[uniserver]

i wonder how much you would of had to pay (retail) of bought new back when it came out…

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

. . . I do not have the authentic Apple 13W3 monitor cable.

I'm not a purist . . . and I do have one, so source an appropriate second source cable and dig up a trade trinket for the Apple AAUI Card I offered . . .
. . . I'll gladly send you both Amazingly Absolute Apple IIfx giblets!

IIRC, the IIfx was released in 1990, the late 80's version would have to have been the IIx king-o-the-hill.

[Charlieman]

Yes, try to find an Apple TPD to go with that. Keep the Apple Color Monitor but add an Apple Workstation Card (that's the one for the TPD) or a suitable third party card.

The TPD is important because so much graphics work is/was based around A4/US Letter in portrait layout. You would have assembled the page on the TPD, with palettes and the content to be imported on another monitor. Even if the page was in colour, you'd have done the layout on the mono TPD for convenience.

[LOOM]

Great setup!
All you need now is some '80s office furniture to go along with it:

[uniserver]

not trying to start an argument with you…
i simply do not believe you paid 100 us dollars or even pounds for all of what is in the picture…

i need a break down as to where you got each item, and how much you paid +shipping or +gas
i think you will find that you have much more invested then a hundred bucks.

If you found all that then 8 x 4MB SIMMs should not bet that expensive

Depends on what you mean by "expensive". Everything you see above cost me less than $100 total.

[CelGen]

A lot of the items came from FreeGeek Vancouver. Their prices on anything that is not modern are damn good. For example, the CD SC and the modem cost $10 and the IIfx was $15.
The other local source is The Hackery. I used to work for them and know them well. When they get especially interesting things in (like the One Scanner or the LaserWriter IIg) they ring up me and a friend and if we show interest, we buy it. The One Scanner was a $5 + some computer work, the IIg was free, and the monitor, keyboard, and cables were all free.
For everything else I had a stockpile of stuff I had been making for almost seven years. Back when I had a paper delivery job I had to make $30 a month go a long way. that was also back in the time when stuff like SE/30's and such sold on ebay for next to nothing. All my NuBus cards and the likes all came in a massive lot. That did technically cost me $150 but we are talking for a lot that filled a 20'x4'x4' crawlspace and consisted of computers, cards, software, documentation and part of a kitchen sink, a few NuBus cards from the lot is technically a couple of dimes worth.

Trash80: I'm extremely interested in just the cable. Like I said before, I'll veer away from extreme purity by using some non-apple Nubus cards.The network card I currently have installed is perfect.

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

If they call you about a DOA Portrait Display and you can ship me just the plastics, I think I've got a cable and adapter that might work already. Otherwise I need a replacement cable, as I said before.

BTW, mine is the DA-19 <-> 13W3 version, if you need 13w3 <-> 13W3, then I can't help you out anyway. Dunno, what's on the back of Apple's Portrait Card?

Your NIC is likely period perfect for the setup anyway, AAUI came about later, IIRC.

[CelGen]

Rats.
Yeah, I need the 13w3 - 13w3 version of the cable. The real Apple portrait display card has 13w3 as well however I have only ever seen one of the Apple cables years ago when it was cut up to make a Y-cable for a NeXTstation Color.