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The Sony Multiscan was an alternative for some applications. These monitors persisted for a long time but were not sold to the public. Owing to burn out, manufacturers of hospital equipment, industrial control systems etc shipped replacements for very expensive kit. My Multisync 1 (industrial...

The first card to be mentioned sounds like this one: Macintosh Two-Page Monochrome Graphics Card Resolution: 1152 x 870 Colour Depth: 4 greyscales standard. Expandable using eight 120ns DIP chips to support 16 greyscales. Length: 12" QuickDraw Acceleration: None. Early versions use the...

Memory Plus were one of those companies which made everything for compact Macs. Your card is almost certainly for graphics. 9 pin connectors were used for first generation multisync monitors as well as for digital CGA/EGA monitors. Given the date, it is likely to be for an analogue monitor. It...

Microsoft provided generic drivers as part of the kit for their parallel/serial expander for compact Macs. MS may not have been the authors of those drivers. I think some drivers may also be found on the disks for MS Word 3.x and earlier.

At least one cable for Mac II monitors was the same as for the IIgs RGB monitor. When I made my own monitor cable (IIgs to NEC Multisync 1), it worked for the IIgs, LCIII and a few more. The monitor is one of the few which work at VGA and IIgs refresh rates. 

Quick tip: Delete (or if cautious, disable) the Iomega extension on any computers running any version of Mac OS and reboot. No Iomega INIT, no problem. If you wish to live with the Iomega INIT/Extension, make a blind copy of the disk and experiment.

Yeah, it's a myth that if you put your System 6 or earlier Zip disk into a Mac running later OS, it will be messed up. I've done it thousands of times.  I'm trying to sell the story that you can use your Iomega Zip (Bernoulli, Jaz?) drive or your Syquest safely in any Mac. I provided empirical...

Buy yourself a cheap "Toby" NuBus card. It will provide basic video functionality on any Mac II and will drive almost all VGA monitors. You'll also need a Mac D15 to VGA video adapter -- one with DIP switches to select VGA mode. If you're feeling rich, buy a better NuBus video card, one of the...

Likewise, but I didn't spend too much time with 8100s at the time when they were current. My guess is that all of the 6100s and 7100s I encountered had a video card or Houdini in the PDS slot.  There were some Performa offerings (eg 6116CD) which never shipped with a PDS card. An original one...

I bought a Canadian (I think) clone of the Newertech module. It works fine. Unless you are using the emate intensively, the standard spec is pretty good. You have to write an awful lot of notes to run out of space.

Think in analogue... I reckon you need two video cards: one for the Mac video and one for TV out. Install a second PCI graphics card with TV output as an option. Temporarily put a TV on the TV out. Remember this is 4:3 ratio NTSC/PAL/SECAM output. Set the Mac desktop to mirror on the second...

The Iomega extension is required only if you use specific Iomega features (eg password protection). To format a Zip cartridge, use a third party formatter such as Lido. To mount a Zip cartridge, use a utility such as SCSI Probe. More myths are discussed at...

The 8100 PDS slot must be terminated. This rule also applies to clones.

Back in the day when the WWW took off (1993-ish), I was one-third of the trio who made it available to users at a UK university. Macs were the easiest and most numerous web clients (Mosaic and helper bundle of applications), followed by Unix workstations. When Netscape 0.9 was released...

If the case is not yellowed, the Mac has never been exposed to sunlight. Selective yellowing is unusual; tanned back and grey/beige fronts are common. Venetian blinds may create strange patterns. Is it yellowing or a stain? Ask the buyer to look for the serial number. Is it on the bottom or...

You'll need to experiment but there are two options. 1. Rename your Tour app AND set the attributes so that they are the same as a System 6 Finder. 2. Examine the boot blocks of an existing system disk using an editor such as Fedit or Norton Disk Editor. The name of the startup app is...

From the MacCharlie manual: "The function keys and the numeric keypad are operable any time they are called for by an IBM PC application program running on MacCharlie. These keypads enable several specific functions used by IBM PC software. When the Macintosh is running and MacCharlie is idle...

The AST cards were part of Apple's bid for corporate acceptance, along with Tokenring networking and parity RAM. Phoenix Technologies as well as Apple had a hand in the card's design according to contemporary reports. Sadly I don't have much technical data on the cards. Can anyone tell me...

What does Activity Monitor say? You have definitely cleaned out the disk caches for your web browsers and confirmed that you have free disk space?

Pedant corner: it's a Dynamac, not a DynaMac (which was a Japanese language Mac 512K marketed by Canon). Two screens were used, as well as a variety of logic boards. The gas plasma models are 512 x 342 and have the magnesium case. This family later became retrospectively called the Dynamac GP...