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PowerBook SCSI Video Solutions and other Expansion Goodies

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
Here's the first scan from "Expanding your PowerBook" MacWorld FEB '93 showing Sigma's SCSI Portrait Monitor.

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NoteBook-Compatibility Guide:

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Sigma Designs Ad

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Bunsen

Admin-Witchfinder-General
Pretty slick. I've never seen or heard of the "RAM slot" adapters described in the second-last scan.

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
IIRC, that was how the adapter for the PB100 (that I couldn't afford) worked. Other than that one piece, BabyPB was loaded to the near MAX! [;)] ]'>

 

register

Well-known member
I snatched a RAM slot video adapter for the PB170. Now I am extremely tempted to throw it into a PB180, to look if it would provide a triple screen mode running "Hellcats" }:)

The PB170 and PB180 use RAM modules of the same form factor and the PB180 runs well using PB170 RAM modules (somewhat slower than with correctly specified modules, however, as the dealer explained when providing the extraordinary expensive RAM modules made for the PB180).

Did probably someone check if the above-mentioned combination of a RAM slot video adapter and a PB180 works well, or if there is an unusal risk to fry the motherboard or the adapter?

 
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