Some mod for Powerbook 170 display out?

[Rikintosh]

I remember reading somewhere on the internet, that there was an adapter for the powerbook 170, which made it possible to connect it to a vga monitor...

I wanted to know if anyone knows some mod using a protoboard or something like that to connect the soldering points of the motherboard to an vga output (I did something like this in some video games)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Check out the archived copies of those magazines. Early PowerBook video solutions hacked the memory interface. PB100 for sure. It's not like the pads for the external connector weren't implemented, there was no provision made for video out at all. IIRC the first PB to have video out was the 180/180c. The little card to the right of the 'Book in the advert above would be the PowerVision board. Dunno what the first PB that supported VGA might have been, the resoulutions listed for the 180/18oc are funky "flicker free" Mac resolutions.

 

[Franklinstein]

I have one in storage or had one at some point, but they did exist. I don't remember what it looks like internally but externally it presented a standard Mac monitor port.

That card probably has a socket that clips over the video chip. Attached are a couple pics I copied off of an auction where one was being sold installed in a PB170.

 

[Paralel]

I am constantly amazed at what the EE's did to make things work back in the nascent, bygone era of early portable technology. This took real skill. You just don't see companies trying to do these kinds of things these days.