Mac Plus FPD card?

[TheWhiteFalcon]

I only opened up my Plus to get a look at the signatures on the casing when I saw something funny on the logic board.

Anyone tell me anything about this, besides the fact it appears to be an FPD card? I can find that there was a Radius one but I can't find anything except a brief mention of a Lapis one.

 

[bibilit]

I Will say video Board

 

[MinerAl]

What kind of video port was on the case?  Is there a pigtail to the board that connects to a Dsub9 or BNC jack to which the monitor should connect? Usually some case mod was necessary to get the video signal out of the Mac.  If yours doesn't have one, someone probably pulled the board out of a different case and didn't bother to remove the video card before putting it in your machine.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

That's just it, there's no pigtail or anything. It's attached to the CPU with a Killy Klip, then attached to that capacitor like you see there.

 

[unity]

Yup, video card. FPD=Full Page Display. My guess is that maybe someone swapped the mobo and left that installed.

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

The analog board is for a Plus as well, I wonder if someone pieced together a system at some point from multiple parts?

 

[unity]

Is this the 512k upgraded to a plus?

The Plus was the last in line for that style analog board, as you know, so many 128k and 512ks ended up with Plus analog boards. Sometimes its easy to spot a machine with a swap just by looking at the switch, it can be platinum. So the swap may be unrelated to anything else.