Two Days, Four Meetups, Too Much Macintosh Stuff

[Phipli]

None of them use sync on green.

Yeah, the IIci Dev Note doesn't mention Sync on Green.

The IIci had slightly more normal video than the really old 640*480 colour cards.

 

[dougg3]

Yeah, the IIci Dev Note doesn't mention Sync on Green.

I'm still confident it supports sync on green output though. Otherwise, the 14 combination wouldn't work with my adapter and monitor combination.

 

[bigmessowires]

If you need to find a home for the StyleWriter please let me know...it's the last piece I need for my first system recreation.

StyleWriter report: we have lost the patient. Initially it powered on but showed a blinking orange error light. After about 30 seconds it went dark, and couldn't be revived. Let's all observe a moment of silence in its memory.

 

[Hopfenholz]

It might be possible to drill holes in the cartridges, refill them with modern ink refill, and put a little rubber stopper in the hole.

You will need to soak the heads in IPA though.

Yep this will work just fine. For pretty much any inkjet cartridge actually. Used to do it on my Canon A3 photo printer which took 8 (count em!) separate cartridges. Or was it 6. A lot anyway

 

[ClassicGuyPhilly]

StyleWriter report: we have lost the patient. Initially it powered on but showed a blinking orange error light. After about 30 seconds it went dark, and couldn't be revived. Let's all observe a moment of silence in its memory.

As I'm only looking for a StyleWriter as a display piece I would still be happy to provide a home for this fallen machine

 

[JT737]

On the subject of LCD monitors for vintage macs, I really like the Dell 170x 4:3 montiors, such as the Dell1708FP pictures here. I used to work at a local college that was throwing these away on a regular basis(!) in favor of 16:9 aspect ratio monitors, so I was able to grab a small collection of them!

Kinda wish I grabbed more of them now......

 

[bigmessowires]

Does that one have a composite video input too? I love my Dell 2001FP for its wide compatibility on its VGA input and its composite input (for Apple II etc), but I wish it were a little smaller.

 

[JT737]

@bigmessowires -Unfortunately no, just VGA and DVI on all of the ones that I have. These monitors came brand new circa the early-to-mid aughts with the Dell computers I used to distribute, so I guess Dell didn't see the need to install composite video on them.

 

[LaPorta]

I've gotten a few of these Dell monitors from Goodwill for $10-20 a pop. They really do work well.

 

[JustG]

I'm eyeballing an E173FP that's local to me. Anyone have experience with that model syncing properly?

 

[bigmessowires]

My desk is a disaster pile of a million different hardware items, so reducing from a 20 inch to 17 inch screen would be a meaningful improvement. But I really need composite input for Apple II use, and those composite to VGA/HDMI converters are just a little bit too flaky in practice for me to be happy with them.

E173FP

I have not used one, but the specs say "Synchronization input signals: separate horizontal and vertical; 3.3V Cmos or 5V TTL level, positive or negative sync", from which I'd guess it doesn't support sync on green or composite sync. FYI I'll be selling all three of the monitors discussed in this thread at Mactoberfest next week if you're interested.

 

[JustG]

I'll keep my pennies until next week!

 

[volvo242gt]

On the subject of LCD monitors for vintage macs, I really like the Dell 170x 4:3 montiors, such as the Dell1708FP pictures here. I used to work at a local college that was throwing these away on a regular basis(!) in favor of 16:9 aspect ratio monitors, so I was able to grab a small collection of them!

Kinda wish I grabbed more of them now......

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The slightly larger 1908FP also works well. Seems like the 1x08 monitors were produced in the 2006-2008 timeframe, since the one I had was originally purchased with my father's Dell Latitude D830 by the original owner in late 2007. Used it between 2013 and a few weeks ago on various Macs.

 

[Nycturne]

Not sure if you were able to answer this separately since it’s been a few months, but these look like Cisco terminal adapters. So these would go in a serial port, and let you use cabling that can be hooked up to patch panels and the like in a central system. So imagine an office where you have a jack that hooks you up to a patch panel which can then be hooked up to whatever the office needs to make available centrally. A machine that can talk to terminals via null modem, a bank of modems for calling out (or in), etc. Also not a bad way for connecting any two serial devices through walls, if you are willing to install jacks in the rooms you want to connect.

I’ve seen versions that use RJ-11 (last one of those I saw was back in the 90s), but I think these use RJ-45 (I count 8 pins). Neat little novelty.

There was also a big box of adapters. Most of them are unknown to me, and have an RJ-11 phone plug on one side, and 9-pin or 25-pin connector on the other side. Anyone know what these are? Some other strange adapters too.

 

[macuserman]

On the subject of LCD monitors for vintage macs, I really like the Dell 170x 4:3 montiors, such as the Dell1708FP pictures here. I used to work at a local college that was throwing these away on a regular basis(!) in favor of 16:9 aspect ratio monitors, so I was able to grab a small collection of them!

Kinda wish I grabbed more of them now......

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Yes! I love these displays, I have two of them that I use as well. They are gold, they work with almost everything, haven't run into anything yet that didn't work with them so far.