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Mac Video Adapter

Elfen

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There used to be an LCD Panel that you put on an overhead projector to project the Mac Screen onto a larger screen, it was for the 128K - Plus and SE Series Macs. That is the adapter for that LCD Panel. It goes onto the mother board and the analog board plugs into it so you wont lose the original video, and then a third cable comes out of the case to the LCD Panel.

The Bd of Ed used to have hundreds of those but stupid teachers would always drop and break the LCD Panel!!!

 

tomlee59

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Has anyone seen an add on board like this.

Marked :   Mac video adapter

                fsa 1988   made in usa
The output can also drive some modern monitors (not all can handle the low resolution, but many can). I homebrewed an equivalent interface module back in the day, to drive a large monitor. You haven't lived until you've seen System 6.0.8 on a 21" CRT!

 

oldappleguy

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That makes since Elfen.  I do remember seeing the projector lcd panels

I anyone wants it let me know.  I will send it to you.

 

wilykat

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Wow I had a Kodak LCD panel (free dumpster diving) that powered on but I couldn't find anything to plug it in.  I think I tossed it on eBay some years ago.

 

Paralel

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Ouch, that sucks

This is why you become a packrat :D

 
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max1zzz

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The output can also drive some modern monitors (not all can handle the low resolution, but many can). I homebrewed an equivalent interface module back in the day, to drive a large monitor. You haven't lived until you've seen System 6.0.8 on a 21" CRT!
Do you know if any plans for such a homebrew module still exist anywhere?

It would be cool to be able to drive a modern monitor from one of my spare 512k boards :)

 

tomlee59

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Do you know if any plans for such a homebrew module still exist anywhere?

It would be cool to be able to drive a modern monitor from one of my spare 512k boards :)
The Classic Mac Repair Guide has a verbal description of how to put one together. Sorry that it doesn't have a schematic -- the author was a very lazy fellow.

 

Paralel

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IDK, can you ever say someone who actually wrote and got a book published is "lazy"? Just doing that is more than most of us can say we have done.

 
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