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SE/30 + Portrait Display?

Jakeys

Member
Hi all, first post! I've recently acquired a recapped stock SE/30, and have been reading all the crazy mods available for it tonight. One thing I'd really like to do is hook my Portrait Display up to it one day, but I haven't had much luck understanding which SE/30 cards are likely to be compatible so I can set search alerts for them. Often any models I google list 640x480 at various colour depths but I don't find any that list any portrait resolution support at greyscale. Except some Radius ones but it seems like those might be for specific Radius brand monitors.

Is there a known list of display cards for an SE/30 that would support an external Macintosh Portrait Display? Especially supporting Bolle's new Ethernet/accelerator combo card.

Preferably with the standard Macintosh connector as I am hoping to locate an OEM 13W3 to Mac cable, or I have one with the right connectors but wrong pinout I may break open and rewire.
 

Bolle

Well-known member
Is there a known list of display cards for an SE/30 that would support an external Macintosh Portrait Display?
The Macintosh Portrait Display is compatible with anything that can drive the 75Hz Radius FPD. As far as I know that's
The only cards that would come to mind are either the SE/30 (1) or IIsi (2) variants of the Radius Color Pivot card.
For the SE/30 a grayscale Radius Pivot card (3) exists as well. I can't remember from the top of my head if that one also outputs 75Hz, but I think it does - so it would be able to drive your display as well.

(1) (2) (3)
 

Jakeys

Member
The Macintosh Portrait Display is compatible with anything that can drive the 75Hz Radius FPD. As far as I know that's
The only cards that would come to mind are either the SE/30 (1) or IIsi (2) variants of the Radius Color Pivot card.
For the SE/30 a grayscale Radius Pivot card (3) exists as well. I can't remember from the top of my head if that one also outputs 75Hz, but I think it does - so it would be able to drive your display as well.

(1) (2) (3)

Thank you, that's perfect. I'll set up search alerts for these and hope for the best! And I reckon I'll order your combo card cause ethernet would be nice as well. Cheers.
 
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