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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
 Posted - 07 May 2002 : 03:10:02
Not booting yet, since it has no hard drive. The RAM slots are full, however, and it has both a Ethernet and a Portrait Display Card! It also came with the Portrait display with 3 ADB sockets on the back.Coolness. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 03:31:39
Nice score! Like a Quadra 700 lying down huh?I've always liked the idea of those portrait displays...In fact I've been offered one for 10 bucks. Any idea what they're worth (I'd grab it 'cept its a major pain to pick up.) Cheers!
CC Current score: 1 eMate 300
1 Apple //e
2 LC IIs
1 LC III
3 LC 475s
3 Quadra 605s
1 Quadra 700
1 Quadra 800
1 PB 520c
2 Powermac 6100s
1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240
2 Wallstreets
and a partridge in a pear tree 
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 04:23:01
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Nice score! Like a Quadra 700 lying down huh?I've always liked the idea of those portrait displays...In fact I've been offered one for 10 bucks. Any idea what they're worth (I'd grab it 'cept its a major pain to pick up.)
in Oz money - they go for $30-$50 on ebay. For plain old usefulness - waaaay more. They're really a neat monitor! cheap, work well with 68k's, and the screen real estate is cool. ...aaaaaand crystal clear! dana --
http://www.danamania.com/
naturally hosted on a Quadra 605
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bigsadhu
Junior Member
Cayman Island
462 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 04:27:28
You do need a special Video card though, no? Or would something like the Radius PCXK drive it?Cheers!
CC Current score: 1 eMate 300
1 Apple //e
2 LC IIs
1 LC III
3 LC 475s
3 Quadra 605s
1 Quadra 700
1 Quadra 800
1 PB 520c
2 Powermac 6100s
1 PowerComputing Powerbase 240
2 Wallstreets
and a partridge in a pear tree
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 04:59:08
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You do need a special Video card though, no? Or would something like the Radius PCXK drive it?
most decent nubus cards or macs will drive one, go get it quickly, it'll be perfect on one of your new microquadras! set her up with a microfeetsportraitwordprocessor and the little luddite'll be a lil'less luddielike!  jt  ™. .
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danamania
Official 68k Muse
Australia
1193 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 06:40:05
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You do need a special Video card though, no? Or would something like the Radius PCXK drive it?
I never looked much into that - however, most Quadras (afaik only the Q630 won't) will drive it. http://www.lowendmac.com/video/ has info about a lot of nubus vid cards. There's also a list of which monitors go with which macs on apples kbase site, but I can't for the life of me find it :D. A Q605 however... it'll quite quite happily run one! dana --
http://www.danamania.com/
naturally hosted on a Quadra 605
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 08:02:03
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I never looked much into that - however, most Quadras (afaik only the Q630 won't) will drive it.A Q605 however... it'll quite quite happily run one!
605 looks dapper with one sittin atop it!the lack of portrait support is one of the few things i find unforgiveable about the 630/6360 family! portrait's the only decent res you can get out of a IIci's onboard video! jt ™. .
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 18:30:01
AHEM. On the NuBus City page, there's a link to a monitors/video card matrix!I'll report back later: gotta go study! (Damn.)  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 19:27:41
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AHEM. On the NuBus City page, there's a link to a monitors/video card matrix!
so that's where the Gamba link dissapeared to you little sneak! wasn't that in the links on the website before?jt ™. .
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 19:55:39
I haven't touched the website links at all...Anyway, the IIcx is another Mac with feets - you can even adjust and reposition them, although they are rather weak and made of cheap plastic.They're used to orient the box in either horizontal or tower mode, but some of min are missing.  ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 07 May 2002 : 20:37:12
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Anyway, the IIcx is another Mac with feets - you can even adjust and reposition them, although they are rather weak and made of cheap plastic.They're used to orient the box in either horizontal or tower mode, but some of min are missing.
take a look at the clear duo parts casting site and figure out how to mold microfeets!actually, i just yanked one off my my IIci and they're a hard rubber part with a simple flat profile that you could probably cut from an eraser in a pinch. can anybody think of a harder rubber object about .5" or 13 mm thick? it'd be a snap to cut them out on a bandsaw in a hard rubber material. jt ™. .
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FireWire is fast
General, 4 star
USA
1559 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2002 : 09:32:44
You can use the Portrait Display a couple of different ways:1) WD-13 -> DB-15 cable connecting the Portrait Display to your Mac's motherboard video (except for the Quadra 630) 2) WD-13 -> WD-13 cable connecting the Portrait Display to the WD-13 Portrait Display video card 3) WD-13 -> DB 15 cable connecting the Portrait Display to the DB-15 version of the Portrait Display video card --------------------
keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™
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Trash80toG-4
NIGHT STALKER
USA
2899 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2002 : 10:02:51
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You can use the Portrait Display a couple of different ways:
4) WD-13 -> DB-15 TPD cable connecting the Portrait Display to a custom sense code changer box ->DB-15->DB-15 KVM Extension->DuoDock II's (or DuoDock's now that i broke the II!) onboard video.not ALL WD-13 -> DB-15 cables are the same! (and there's a DB-15 ABCD Switchbox in between to feed from my MicroQuadraFeetsBox or anything else i hook to the "C" input from the bench! ) *thinks he's gotta get a PCI Card to drive it off the G4 too, can't waste that unused "D" intput!* jt ™. . Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 08 May 2002 10:06:17 |
~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2002 : 18:01:58
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2) WD-13 -> WD-13 cable connecting the Portrait Display to the WD-13 Portrait Display video card3) WD-13 -> DB 15 cable connecting the Portrait Display to the DB-15 version of the Portrait Display video card
I now have both video cards, but only one of the cables... 4 new cards appearing in the NuBus city soon... ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
Mayor of NuBus City
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2002 : 23:51:59
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*thinks he's gotta get a PCI Card to drive it off the G4 too, can't waste that unused "D" intput!*
Are you sure that the vid card you're getting supports the odd resolution that the Portrait runs at? *thinks he's gotta get a Portrait for his LCIII* -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5
68k Macintosh Liberation Army
Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
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Rexzilla
Junior Member
132 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2002 : 02:33:32
For some reason when I was an insurance broker I was envious of an insurance company's CX with a portrait monitor. They made their company literature on that thing. It did look odd with that huge monitor on top of it:) This was back in the day when I was stuck with a 286 and an amber display...yuck!
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New Toy - IIcx
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