MacViking card found in a SE

Byte Knight · Aug 6, 2022

I got a Mac SE in a lot of Apple stuff and it has a MacViking card going to a male DB9 port in the back. It says "c 1987 by Moniterm Corp" and there's also a sticker that says "Viking 1 & 2400 Controller for the Mac SE." I can't find much info about it anywhere - I'm assuming it's a video card? Anyone have any interest in it?

Thanks!

pcamen · Aug 9, 2022

Moniterm made monitors advertised for desktop publishing in the lat 80's - early 90's with the Viking brand.

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I found this in the Spring 1990 edition of Macintosh Buyers Guide.

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So that would appear to be the card that came with that monitor.

Pushpull76 · Aug 9, 2022

Owwww at a first glance I thought the simms were on the Viking card

LaPorta · Aug 9, 2022

There’s potential to make/get an adapter for that thing…that would be cool!

ArmorAlley · Aug 9, 2022

1024x768 @8-bit grayscale on an SE back in 1988!
Wow.
That is some card. It cost as much as the stock SE itself.
Add in PageMaker 3.5, 3 more megabytes of RAM and a DeskWriter from HP and you had a decent DTP system for under $10K.
A stock Mac II with 4MB RAM would already be pushing up towards that.

Bolle · Aug 9, 2022

ArmorAlley said:
1024x768 @8-bit grayscale on an SE

Only the Mac II card does 8-bit. The SE card is monochrome.

ArmorAlley · Aug 9, 2022

Bolle said:
Only the Mac II card does 8-bit. The SE card is monochrome.

True. I read it too quickly. Of course, the SE can't handle colour. It doesn't have ColorQuickDraw (I think it is) in the ROM.
Thanks for the correction.
Still while 8-bit would be very impressive, 1024x768 on an SE is what impressed me.

Crutch · Aug 9, 2022

I don’t have an SE at the moment but always thought it DOES have Color QuickDraw in the (256k) ROM.

Actually I am fairly certain of that.

So I wonder why this card doesn’t support color on an SE?

Phipli · Aug 9, 2022

Crutch said:
I don’t have an SE at the moment but always thought it DOES have Color QuickDraw in the (256k) ROM.

Actually I am fairly certain of that.

So I wonder why this card doesn’t support color on an SE?

No, sadly the SE doesn't have colour quickdraw. Only colour interfaces for them are limited to the small number of colours the original quickdraw supported. I've never seen one of them, did the sczzygraph do that? Can't remember.

Byte Knight · Aug 9, 2022

pcamen said:
Moniterm made monitors advertised for desktop publishing in the lat 80's - early 90's with the Viking brand.

I found this in the Spring 1990 edition of Macintosh Buyers Guide.

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So that would appear to be the card that came with that monitor.

Interesting - Minnetonka is only about 15 minutes away from me! Might have to go check out the address...

Trash80toHP_Mini · Aug 9, 2022

Very cool stuff. 1024x768 (AKA 19" resolution) spread across 24" sounds like about 64DPI?

Panasonic PanaPro system was similar, but was 1bit B&W in TPD res on a 19" monitor with SE and NuBus cards. I got the NuBus version for my used IIx. It may have been B&W like the SE before it, but it was like moving from a toddler's mattress to a king size! To heck with 72DPI!

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