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IIfx/CD 5 year tune-up . . .
. . . I posted this Internal CD Hack just about 10 years ago. I gave this pampered IIfx a good going over after I brought it to the Apartment from my Storage Room about 5 years ago. Today, I needed to run the Dishwasher empty after having cycled a File Folder Box FULL of really filthy cables through it twice last week. [xx(] ]'>
So after hearing all the horror stories about getting these 20 year old beauties up and running, I checked the MoBo for anything out of the way, found all in good order and then ran the freakin' dishwasher empty!
Went to set it up for testing, but discovered I'd removed the Video Card at some point . . . :-/
So I dug ye olde plastic shoebox of NuBus Goodness™ out of the closet and filled that sucker's (four empty) slots to the gills with every cool card I could find, without an antistatic bag wrapped around it, just for kicks. [}
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Didn't boot at the first press of the Power button on the ADB KBD II, but it did on the second!
Got everything set up just so on the desktop to take a Tell-All Screen Shot and discovered the (original no less!) Boot Drive was Impacted, so I blew out the (Investment Banker) previous owner/user's extra 200 some odd MB Folder of Extensions, (yes, over 200 freakin! MB) and the redundant Apple Commentary in the idiot's TEMP Directory and managed to get a really nice Screen Shot.
Then came the fun part, finding an FDD cable, which was conspicuously missing , . . :?: . . . dug one out of one of the other magic plastic shoe boxen™, along with the (pictured on top of the original FDD) PCMCIA HDD that I'd remembered absolutely NOTHING about! A choice goodie, liberated from my own miscellaneous HackingCrudCollection™! [
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Plugged it in and discovered some seriously wrong sound effects on startup and decided NOT to wait for boot & whacked the power button on the back. I went through two or three different FDDs before yanking one that worked fine on the right hand FDD connector on the MoBo and the Second Bondi Blue FDHD I tried from my NIB iMation FruitPack got the file transferred and verified.
Now what to do? I've been using the rug rat's 6290 on and off in the testing phase of my Classic/Projector Hybrid Hack, so I sat the IIfx on top of the new TeakBookKeeping/HackCenter™ in my bedroom, the old E3 scanner on top of that and a Zip Drive in between. After ironing out of the bugs in that collection of oldies, but goodies, I transferred the FDD file to ZIP, then headed downstairs to the 466 DA/ZIP to transfer the ScreenShot PICT to an 8 GB KCHN in order to then transfer it to the QS02/NoZIP upstairs so I could 'peg it and then put it back onto the KCHN to post along with all the piccies I took during the PentAnnual (?) IIfx Tune-UP . . .
. . . and promptly forgot the freakin' KCHN! :I
. . . so I'm sittin' here at Caribou Coffee with my . . . erm . . . :?: . . . KCHN sittin' at home, typing in my usual longwinded story . . .
. . . but the piccies will be posted real soon now, because today was the first of 5 days off! [] ]'>
So after hearing all the horror stories about getting these 20 year old beauties up and running, I checked the MoBo for anything out of the way, found all in good order and then ran the freakin' dishwasher empty!
Went to set it up for testing, but discovered I'd removed the Video Card at some point . . . :-/
So I dug ye olde plastic shoebox of NuBus Goodness™ out of the closet and filled that sucker's (four empty) slots to the gills with every cool card I could find, without an antistatic bag wrapped around it, just for kicks. [}
] ]'>Didn't boot at the first press of the Power button on the ADB KBD II, but it did on the second!
Got everything set up just so on the desktop to take a Tell-All Screen Shot and discovered the (original no less!) Boot Drive was Impacted, so I blew out the (Investment Banker) previous owner/user's extra 200 some odd MB Folder of Extensions, (yes, over 200 freakin! MB) and the redundant Apple Commentary in the idiot's TEMP Directory and managed to get a really nice Screen Shot.
Then came the fun part, finding an FDD cable, which was conspicuously missing , . . :?: . . . dug one out of one of the other magic plastic shoe boxen™, along with the (pictured on top of the original FDD) PCMCIA HDD that I'd remembered absolutely NOTHING about! A choice goodie, liberated from my own miscellaneous HackingCrudCollection™! [
] ]'>Plugged it in and discovered some seriously wrong sound effects on startup and decided NOT to wait for boot & whacked the power button on the back. I went through two or three different FDDs before yanking one that worked fine on the right hand FDD connector on the MoBo and the Second Bondi Blue FDHD I tried from my NIB iMation FruitPack got the file transferred and verified.
Now what to do? I've been using the rug rat's 6290 on and off in the testing phase of my Classic/Projector Hybrid Hack, so I sat the IIfx on top of the new TeakBookKeeping/HackCenter™ in my bedroom, the old E3 scanner on top of that and a Zip Drive in between. After ironing out of the bugs in that collection of oldies, but goodies, I transferred the FDD file to ZIP, then headed downstairs to the 466 DA/ZIP to transfer the ScreenShot PICT to an 8 GB KCHN in order to then transfer it to the QS02/NoZIP upstairs so I could 'peg it and then put it back onto the KCHN to post along with all the piccies I took during the PentAnnual (?) IIfx Tune-UP . . .
. . . and promptly forgot the freakin' KCHN! :I
. . . so I'm sittin' here at Caribou Coffee with my . . . erm . . . :?: . . . KCHN sittin' at home, typing in my usual longwinded story . . .
. . . but the piccies will be posted real soon now, because today was the first of 5 days off! [
] ]'>Nope! They were ALL the IIfx variety! }Hahahaha, I remember that machine...didn't you pick up a whole bunch of II/IIx/IIfx series machines from an investment bank or something, WITH all their data still intact?
A bunch of High End LW IIs were acquired too! :rambo: But only the "big boss's" or the "desktop designer's" fx was all that pimped out. :'(
They ALL had a metric Crapload of info that never should have hit the streets on them, but it was already something like 2 - 10 years old at the time, so no biggiei! But my startup drive is CHOCK FULL of nice software! [
] ]'>Some of the lesser brethren, most not working worth a . . . whatever . . . got chopped up, One for the IIfPExHack, and for other variants of the IIfx/PEx Combo Towers, some remained untouched and ALL were lost in the great storage room fiasco . . . except my pet IIfx! [
] ]'>I figured all the old piccies on the iDisk were taken with the Visor/EyeModule rig, so I re-documented the whole thing today . . .
. . . while I was supposed to be cleaning up the PlexAtrocityPile-o-Poo! :lol:
I'll probably post it all tomorrow, along with some more stuff re: Bunsen'sFolley! }
Piccies!
I'm not going to chop out a big section of the side for CD access, if I get my hands on a SCSI Slot Loader, I'll go so far as to rearrange heights so it'll pop the CD in-n-out one of the coolin' slots, but that's as far as I'll go.
Meanwhile, the convertible/hardtop approach is the BOMB! :rambo:
Voila! Internal CD hacked into a IIfx MANY moons ago.)
Full House! Meanwhile, I found enough extra NuBus goodies in the other Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen that the Box of NuBus Goodness is at almost OVER capacity status again. [] ]'>
Here's the original HDD doin' its sleepin' bat thing under the CD.
Here's the Config Status Screen Shot that was such a freakin' PIA to do a staged SneakerNet onto HP_Mini . . .
. . . next time I'll get the ole' 10/100/1000 BT thing cookin' again! :
It's not the prettiest IIfx extant, but I love it!)
I'm not going to chop out a big section of the side for CD access, if I get my hands on a SCSI Slot Loader, I'll go so far as to rearrange heights so it'll pop the CD in-n-out one of the coolin' slots, but that's as far as I'll go.
Meanwhile, the convertible/hardtop approach is the BOMB! :rambo:
Voila! Internal CD hacked into a IIfx MANY moons ago.
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Full House! Meanwhile, I found enough extra NuBus goodies in the other Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen that the Box of NuBus Goodness is at almost OVER capacity status again. [
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Here's the original HDD doin' its sleepin' bat thing under the CD.
Here's the Config Status Screen Shot that was such a freakin' PIA to do a staged SneakerNet onto HP_Mini . . .
. . . next time I'll get the ole' 10/100/1000 BT thing cookin' again! :
It's not the prettiest IIfx extant, but I love it!
) :lol: You betcha! Visual thinkers have their very own (oft-times warped) way of "lookin' at things" that the rest of humanity can't even imagine seeing! [
] ]'>My wonderful ex, a brilliant early-ed speech pathologist, once made an awed statement about our Pre-K Rug Rat: "I can see him taking things apart in his head!" [
] ]'>Yeah, physically, you might need something to poke the disk in far enough through the case, but I was asking more about if the drive actually could operate. There are some Macs that must be able to use both, i.e. some Centris 660AVs had one some had the other, and apparently identical logic boards.
From experience, I have verified an auto-inject drive as NOT working in a Power Mac 5500. I guess I've always kind of wondered about this compatibility, where the cutoffs are, etc.
The FDD on the right is the original drive, which made some AWEFUL noises when I booted with a cable hooked up to it. IIRC, the FDD that's just sitting in the left bay was the one I used to write the configuration screen shot to floppy, so I could transfer it onto a ZIP on another machine.
I had to try two or three drives and then a second floppy to get a good write/confirmation, so I'm not really sure what's what. I DO remember that the FDD that worked was from one of those fugly AIOs that look like the MacTV. [}
] ]'> [] ]'> [)] ]'>p.s. Yes, comrade B, the card in Slot A is a 1988 National Instruments DIO card with internal & external 50 pin (?) male header connectors. If it weren't such a PITA to sneaker net the Pict, I ought load ANOTHER selection of six NuBus Goodies into my pet IIfx and post a second Config screen shot. [
] ]'>p.p.s. How'd you like that Graphic I found on the HDD?
Hmm.. Okay, now you need the Digidesign Pro Analog interface for that Sound Accellerator card or the regular half rack unit would do too!!!
The Storm Nubus card is the multi dsp processing card right! I wanted one for years, and when I thought I bought one on ebay, the guy shipped the PCI card instead in the Nubus box.. I'm not complaining. That card is nice too.
Whatcha hooking to the Mac/Irma card? Got a mainframe?
Have anything planned for those 32 channels of DIO??
Very nice box!
The Storm Nubus card is the multi dsp processing card right! I wanted one for years, and when I thought I bought one on ebay, the guy shipped the PCI card instead in the Nubus box.. I'm not complaining. That card is nice too.
Whatcha hooking to the Mac/Irma card? Got a mainframe?
Have anything planned for those 32 channels of DIO??
Very nice box!
:lol: Nope! All I need is the little box that came with it, I use the card to get Stereo Sound out of my Duos.
You betcha! :b&w:
Not yet, if I'd have HAD one, it would've gone bye-bye with most of my toys in the Great Storage Room Fiasco. :'(Whatcha hooking to the Mac/Irma card? Got a mainframe?
I loaded that card in there, first because it was one of the ones w/o an anti-static envelope and second . . .
. . . because I knew you'd get a big kick out of it!
) Evil Block Company™ based robotics!
) Thank you ,sir! [
] ]'>More Piccies! . . . erm . . . just one for now: see below! [] ]'>
Full House! Meanwhile, I found enough extra NuBus goodies in the other Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen that the Box of NuBus Goodness is at almost OVER capacity status again. [] ]'>
Full House 2! [] ]'>
It's a guessing game for you all until I can find the, Yellow Crossover 10Bt Cable from one of my AsanteTalk Bridges or figure out just which one of my many 10Bt/ThinNet Cards came with my Pet IIfx!
Until then, I can't transfer the Gauge SlotInfo ScreenShot with the Card Info . . . :-/
. . . however, I will tell you that the card with the missing part doesn't show up in SlotInfo window . . . :
. . . But it's the ComputerEyes . . . somethingorother . . . forgot to take note of it for the post . . . OOPSIE! . . . :I
. . . then again . . . I can always fix that when I edit in the ScreenShot! }
TTFN!)
P.S. There are still bit o'Ye Olde Full Length Variety left in the Box of NuBus Goodness! :lol:
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Full House! Meanwhile, I found enough extra NuBus goodies in the other Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen that the Box of NuBus Goodness is at almost OVER capacity status again. [
] ]'>HEH! :lisa:
Full House 2! [
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It's a guessing game for you all until I can find the, Yellow Crossover 10Bt Cable from one of my AsanteTalk Bridges or figure out just which one of my many 10Bt/ThinNet Cards came with my Pet IIfx!
Until then, I can't transfer the Gauge SlotInfo ScreenShot with the Card Info . . . :-/
. . . however, I will tell you that the card with the missing part doesn't show up in SlotInfo window . . . :
. . . But it's the ComputerEyes . . . somethingorother . . . forgot to take note of it for the post . . . OOPSIE! . . . :I
. . . then again . . . I can always fix that when I edit in the ScreenShot! }
TTFN!
) P.S. There are still bit o'Ye Olde Full Length Variety left in the Box of NuBus Goodness! :lol:
Configuration ScreenShot:
I lopped off most of the second monitor's pixels. I love doing a ScreenShot w/three or more Graphics Cards/Monitors on board, especially when one of them is my Apple Portrait Display! [] ]'>
OOPSIE!!!!!!!! :O
I forgot to get the ComputerEyes Info off the card again! :I
I lopped off most of the second monitor's pixels. I love doing a ScreenShot w/three or more Graphics Cards/Monitors on board, especially when one of them is my Apple Portrait Display! [
] ]'>OOPSIE!!!!!!!! :O
I forgot to get the ComputerEyes Info off the card again! :I
I don't know, I've never tested it, but I don't see why not. NuBus is WAY faster than 100Bt, so I doubt any NuBus Mac would be a limiting factor. Unless, of course, the problem boiled down to PROC or OS incompatibility. If you're interested in the results, I'll give it a whirl when I get the chance, after I RTFM first! [] ]'>
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BTW: this tangential portion of the thread isn't necessarily about the IIfx at this point. Some interest was shown in the "Full House" shot and the cards in it, so I did another round. At this point it's more about letting the troops know about another bit of the 'Ole NuBus Goodness and how to go about checking out any cards they may run across, in any slot type, with Slot Info App from the Gauge Series. It works for NuBus, PDS, and Virtual Slot spelunking. Take note of the Slot 0 info in both ScreenShots: there's provision (probably just in FirmWare) for what is likely the IIci's crappy Video SubSystem on board the fx!
There are other tools available for DeclROM snooping, maybe I'll do another round using another program that I like just as much!
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I don't think the Card in Slot C is borked, I couldn't find any obvious Setup ROM on it during a quick checkout.
Here are the Specs off the card:
Computer Eyes/Pro
by Digital Vision
P.N. FCEMCR REV. B
It has S Video and Composite Video Ports (I'm assuming inputs) and from the Production Value/Methods/Layout, I'd say it was VERY early Mac II era . . . if it was a Mac Card AT ALL! It might have been for some higher end UNIX based WorkStation that implemented NuBus differently than the Mac ToolBox Slot Manager . . . if it IS NuBus at all . . . it could very well be something else entirely, that happend to use the same EuroDIN connector.
Dunno, haven't looked for info or software for it in almost ten years!)
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BTW: this tangential portion of the thread isn't necessarily about the IIfx at this point. Some interest was shown in the "Full House" shot and the cards in it, so I did another round. At this point it's more about letting the troops know about another bit of the 'Ole NuBus Goodness and how to go about checking out any cards they may run across, in any slot type, with Slot Info App from the Gauge Series. It works for NuBus, PDS, and Virtual Slot spelunking. Take note of the Slot 0 info in both ScreenShots: there's provision (probably just in FirmWare) for what is likely the IIci's crappy Video SubSystem on board the fx!
There are other tools available for DeclROM snooping, maybe I'll do another round using another program that I like just as much!
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I don't think the Card in Slot C is borked, I couldn't find any obvious Setup ROM on it during a quick checkout.
Here are the Specs off the card:
Computer Eyes/Pro
by Digital Vision
P.N. FCEMCR REV. B
It has S Video and Composite Video Ports (I'm assuming inputs) and from the Production Value/Methods/Layout, I'd say it was VERY early Mac II era . . . if it was a Mac Card AT ALL! It might have been for some higher end UNIX based WorkStation that implemented NuBus differently than the Mac ToolBox Slot Manager . . . if it IS NuBus at all . . . it could very well be something else entirely, that happend to use the same EuroDIN connector.
Dunno, haven't looked for info or software for it in almost ten years!
) Correction?
Mine actually has the Apple sticker on the solder side:
Macintosh Display Card 24 AC
On the Component side the ROM reads:
1993 Radius 24AC V1.1
The Card verbiage is:
24 Bit Accelerated Graphics I/F
Scanner's down, but I bet there's one over in the NuBus Mafia on 'fritter, or here when the maniac started the card scanning craze. [] ]'>
Mine actually has the Apple sticker on the solder side:
Macintosh Display Card 24 AC
On the Component side the ROM reads:
1993 Radius 24AC V1.1
The Card verbiage is:
24 Bit Accelerated Graphics I/F
Scanner's down, but I bet there's one over in the NuBus Mafia on 'fritter, or here when the maniac started the card scanning craze. [
] ]'>I'd say that it is actually a Mac card - there was a ComputerEyes video capture NuBus card for the Mac at one point...I have a "Business Productivity" CD issued by Apple (came in a binder with some other CDs with my AppleCD 300 back in 1993) that has something to do with the ComputerEyes card, I'll have a look this afternoon, IIRC it was a demo made with Macromind Director that shows off the features of the card.
Hey also curious. You mentioned you had a "little box" for that Sound Accelerator II board. What does that look like? I've seen the Black and Beige small metal boxes that hook up with DB-25 cabling to the back of those cards. They had the analog one and a digital IO one, but they were both basically 1/2 rack width metal cases... Then they made the "pro" 1U rack unit with all the spiffy lights and both analog and digital io in one unit.
ooooh the power of 1989!
ooooh the power of 1989!
- yeh. I was in the computer industry when all this was at its height. We were using AutoCAD v2.1 on DOS AT with coprocessor that wasn't even installed on the motherboard correctly! The big deal was redrawing times in AutoCAD, many systems redrew very slowly, there was the benchmark drawings of St Pauls church etc. and the race was on as to who could make the fastest redraw.
At the time it was all exciting, cutting edge stuff and now having some old Macs of that era to play with (at the time way too costly) I can see what the fuss was all about. These old Macs must have been red hot. Interestingly even my old Atari ST bears a strong resemblance to the Mac OS6/7 - that IIfx must have been totally space age. It seems the Mac OS was the benchmark as Windows95 onwards seems virtually an incarnation of it and all the applications bought up and amalgamated into MS.
Once I get my IIfx running again, I'll be back.
I'm working on the Full House 3 shot while cataloging my TWO Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen of NuBus Goodness™ based upon the info in the SlotInfo reports in the Full House and Full House 2 screenshots.
Just received another pair of the Red_RadiusVidCards, two more VidCards and a Large Lot of assorted SlotFillers in transit ATM! [] ]'>
Meanwhile, I'm filling Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen of PDS, DOS on Mac & PCI Goodness! [] ]'>
Temetka, I'll upload your Starship piccie when I can do a SpreadSheet of what's been posted so far . . .
. . . in order to figure out what to stuff into my Pet IIfx/CD this time around . . .
Just received another pair of the Red_RadiusVidCards, two more VidCards and a Large Lot of assorted SlotFillers in transit ATM! [
] ]'>Meanwhile, I'm filling Magic Plastic Shoe Boxen of PDS, DOS on Mac & PCI Goodness! [
] ]'>Temetka, I'll upload your Starship piccie when I can do a SpreadSheet of what's been posted so far . . .
. . . in order to figure out what to stuff into my Pet IIfx/CD this time around . . .
For the patiently waiting Temetka:
Full House 3, NICville
NIC Lights
Full House 3: Cards
Once again, I have a card that doesn't show up in the SlotInfo Screen, but this time I think it's because the card's not working.
Apple 1989
670-0210-08
ASSY 2680-08 REV M
No biggie, it's only a Thick/ThinNet NIC (jumper selectable)
There are a pair of 32 Pin DIP ROMs (?) filling two of four (every other) sockets:
NEC USA
D43256AC-10L
9033A V315
I can't imagine worrying about this thing, it came in a huge pile of Cards I bid on to get the one gem! A Radius Color Pivot II-SE/30 Full Height Card WITH the cable I needed for RCPII/IIsi playtime! The Apple Token Ring Card and the two Apple Nics and the 16" x 8bit VidCard are pretty nice, but why the heck did apple come up with that idiotic AAUI/Dongle Kluge?
There's also an SE NIC in the batch for good measure! :approve:
Full House 3, NICville
NIC Lights
Full House 3: Cards
Once again, I have a card that doesn't show up in the SlotInfo Screen, but this time I think it's because the card's not working.
Apple 1989
670-0210-08
ASSY 2680-08 REV M
No biggie, it's only a Thick/ThinNet NIC (jumper selectable)
There are a pair of 32 Pin DIP ROMs (?) filling two of four (every other) sockets:
NEC USA
D43256AC-10L
9033A V315
I can't imagine worrying about this thing, it came in a huge pile of Cards I bid on to get the one gem! A Radius Color Pivot II-SE/30 Full Height Card WITH the cable I needed for RCPII/IIsi playtime! The Apple Token Ring Card and the two Apple Nics and the 16" x 8bit VidCard are pretty nice, but why the heck did apple come up with that idiotic AAUI/Dongle Kluge?
There's also an SE NIC in the batch for good measure! :approve:
Better Late than never . . . :
The NuBusMiniDock™ hack is still underway . . . occasionally . . . as I assemble the parts necessary for the DuoDock III™ hack.
I'll be bundling the batches of boards from each iteration along with cardboard markers for locating the boards that are in use in my various NuBus Macs.
Since you're in Raleigh now, a swap for some trade goods would be duck soup!
I never found a Trinitron MultiSync in your specified size range, BTW.
edit: to correct the connector spec . . . OOPSIE!
That was a mistake, I was confusing the SAII Card with my NuBus & LC PAS 16 I/O box combos. I just used the 1/4" headphone jack on the SAII for the successful StereoDuo configuration testing for the NuBusMiniDock™ & DuoBoomBoxDock™ hack projects back in the day.
The NuBusMiniDock™ hack is still underway . . . occasionally . . . as I assemble the parts necessary for the DuoDock III™ hack.
The DCA MacIRMA Card in the Full House post is ThinNet. The Apple Token Ring 4/16 NB Card in Full House 3 has some kind of a DB-9 interface, interesting card, it has a very cool lookin' DaughterCard on board. I'll probably be doing Full House 4 later today, so I'll check to see if I have any more Mac <-> Main Frame/Mini goodies to post. This thread is going to be my NuBUS Goodness Database by the time I finish it . . . someday . . . gotta set up the copy stand and take paired shots of both sides of the collection to add for content.
I'll be bundling the batches of boards from each iteration along with cardboard markers for locating the boards that are in use in my various NuBus Macs.
Since you're in Raleigh now, a swap for some trade goods would be duck soup!
I never found a Trinitron MultiSync in your specified size range, BTW.
edit: to correct the connector spec . . . OOPSIE!
Full House 4: PixelTown!
I finally had to take a shot of the actual screen because the system couldn't handle a screen shot of this magnitude . . .
. . . very little SneakerNet shuffling involved! :lol:
This setup is a bit of a cheat, I had all those TOBY & "High Res" unaccelerated Mac II era clunkers to get out of the way so I can test and post some spiffier NuBus Video Cards and what not in the next iteration of the Full House Project.
Full House 4: Cards
All five Apple Cards tested fine. The 1988 NuVista Card is throwing something into the Mac's video memory space, which is one of the six screens in the monitors control panel. It has to be the largest one, screen ID 3, given the card configuration. However, I have no more idea how to tap into its DB-9 I/O Connectors than I did of the same connectors on the very different 1990 NuVista Card in the original Full House post.
Maybe someday! :-/
I finally had to take a shot of the actual screen because the system couldn't handle a screen shot of this magnitude . . .
. . . very little SneakerNet shuffling involved! :lol:
This setup is a bit of a cheat, I had all those TOBY & "High Res" unaccelerated Mac II era clunkers to get out of the way so I can test and post some spiffier NuBus Video Cards and what not in the next iteration of the Full House Project.
Full House 4: Cards
All five Apple Cards tested fine. The 1988 NuVista Card is throwing something into the Mac's video memory space, which is one of the six screens in the monitors control panel. It has to be the largest one, screen ID 3, given the card configuration. However, I have no more idea how to tap into its DB-9 I/O Connectors than I did of the same connectors on the very different 1990 NuVista Card in the original Full House post.
Maybe someday! :-/
I wondered when that'd get spotted, the readout is why I forgive the poor thing the slight distortion you can see in the photo.
It's a MAG InnoVision MX21F that I use mostly for diagnostics and sits on the left side of my beloved Radius PrecisionView 2150 alpha-male display CRT since 2001. The MAG has A/B switched Mac & VGA inputs so I can use a straight thru Mac Video Cable and it'll display just about anything thrown at it. [] ]'> It and the Radius have a whole bunch of features accessible using a serial connection, but I've never bothered to figure that crap out. Now that I've got the full PrecisionView Software Bundle, maybe I'll play around with it a bit.
My 68kMacintosh playstation also has the ViewSonic Graphics Series G810 I liberated, sans wobble-base, sitting in Portrait Mode to the right of the Big Dog. On the left of the MAG is my "new" SUN 21, I think the vacuum worktable (VERY HEAVY DUTY torsion box construction) from my old shop is the place that 21" CRTs go into semi-retirement. The ViewSonic 22" craigslist freebie is on the other side of the play room with the LCDs, but even at 22" the Radius still kicks its @$$! [}] ]'>
< . . . decides not to mention the other 21" CRT that's out on loan . . . >
Not much about the MAG on the first few pages of Google, but I found this teaser:
It's a MAG InnoVision MX21F that I use mostly for diagnostics and sits on the left side of my beloved Radius PrecisionView 2150 alpha-male display CRT since 2001. The MAG has A/B switched Mac & VGA inputs so I can use a straight thru Mac Video Cable and it'll display just about anything thrown at it. [
] ]'> It and the Radius have a whole bunch of features accessible using a serial connection, but I've never bothered to figure that crap out. Now that I've got the full PrecisionView Software Bundle, maybe I'll play around with it a bit.My 68kMacintosh playstation also has the ViewSonic Graphics Series G810 I liberated, sans wobble-base, sitting in Portrait Mode to the right of the Big Dog. On the left of the MAG is my "new" SUN 21, I think the vacuum worktable (VERY HEAVY DUTY torsion box construction) from my old shop is the place that 21" CRTs go into semi-retirement. The ViewSonic 22" craigslist freebie is on the other side of the play room with the LCDs, but even at 22" the Radius still kicks its @$$! [}
] ]'>< . . . decides not to mention the other 21" CRT that's out on loan . . . >
Not much about the MAG on the first few pages of Google, but I found this teaser:
But it's comforting to know that I can get another one that's refurbished for just $231.10! :lol:PC World; November 1 said:
What's that? :?:
Thanks for reminding me to repost the conquest info for Full House 5 in the IIfx Tuneup thread.
Full House 5
Unfortunately, they didn't all want to cooperate together, so only three of the six showed up in the screenshot.
There's some anecdotal evidence and a lot of conjecture regarding this coincidence below.
PixelsGalore: Picture_3 screenshot
Here's the low down from from my own personal ROM Spelunking/Display App fave.
I actually prefer TechTool, but SlotInfo just looks so good on the screen.
The Card in Slot C had its DeclROM Slot ID info STOMPED ON by the 12" Bully in the next slot.
It's really a Radius Color Pivot Card, not as big a deal as the other 4 new-to-me VidCards, but still very nice to have.
Picture _3_Panels cropped from image above
Picture_4 from the little Red Radius Roundup:
It's interesting that the thee Radius Cards won't play nicely together. I don't have RadiusWare or the Radius Intellicolor Software/Drivers loaded on my pet IIfx. I'll have to try RadiusWare later today to see if they'll show three screens in the Monitors Control Panel. This co-incidence leaves me to Believe that the three screens showing up would be the 24AC and the SuperMac Spectrum/24, both in 1024/768 x 1Bit and then the RasterOps ColorBoard 364 in 640 x 480 x 24 Bit.
I couldn't change the first Radius Card's Color Depth.
It's also interesting that the monitors ID and positions appear to show up in the Monitors Control Panel in the order they are installed in the slots when facing the Computer, which neatly co-incides with the rising numbers of the NuBus Slot Assignments.
This bears further inquiry. I was being lazy about the testing portion of these coincidental findings due to the hurried nature of the testing/Full House project. My 24AC hadn't worked when I pulled on card from the Full House 4/Video Card Roundup/Card testing session, which did show all six screens in the Monitors Control Panel. That made me wonder if there was a conflict with the IIfx's quirky I/O setup, luckily that was coincidental, not a serious concern.
RedRadiusRoundup front side:
RedRadiusRoundup solder side
I needed to get these two new ones tested, mine's on the right/bottom of Full House 5 pic above/whatever, it's interesting that none have the same batches of components in the same places and that the ASIC has changed to further confuse the issue.
I'll post the rest of the CardPIX in a reply below to ease load times . . .
. . . and to give me time to get around to taking them and to do the further testing!
Thanks for reminding me to repost the conquest info for Full House 5 in the IIfx Tuneup thread.
Full House 5
Unfortunately, they didn't all want to cooperate together, so only three of the six showed up in the screenshot.
There's some anecdotal evidence and a lot of conjecture regarding this coincidence below.
PixelsGalore: Picture_3 screenshot
Here's the low down from from my own personal ROM Spelunking/Display App fave.
I actually prefer TechTool, but SlotInfo just looks so good on the screen.
The Card in Slot C had its DeclROM Slot ID info STOMPED ON by the 12" Bully in the next slot.
It's really a Radius Color Pivot Card, not as big a deal as the other 4 new-to-me VidCards, but still very nice to have.
Picture _3_Panels cropped from image above
Picture_4 from the little Red Radius Roundup:
It's interesting that the thee Radius Cards won't play nicely together. I don't have RadiusWare or the Radius Intellicolor Software/Drivers loaded on my pet IIfx. I'll have to try RadiusWare later today to see if they'll show three screens in the Monitors Control Panel. This co-incidence leaves me to Believe that the three screens showing up would be the 24AC and the SuperMac Spectrum/24, both in 1024/768 x 1Bit and then the RasterOps ColorBoard 364 in 640 x 480 x 24 Bit.
I couldn't change the first Radius Card's Color Depth.
It's also interesting that the monitors ID and positions appear to show up in the Monitors Control Panel in the order they are installed in the slots when facing the Computer, which neatly co-incides with the rising numbers of the NuBus Slot Assignments.
This bears further inquiry. I was being lazy about the testing portion of these coincidental findings due to the hurried nature of the testing/Full House project. My 24AC hadn't worked when I pulled on card from the Full House 4/Video Card Roundup/Card testing session, which did show all six screens in the Monitors Control Panel. That made me wonder if there was a conflict with the IIfx's quirky I/O setup, luckily that was coincidental, not a serious concern.
RedRadiusRoundup front side:
RedRadiusRoundup solder side
I needed to get these two new ones tested, mine's on the right/bottom of Full House 5 pic above/whatever, it's interesting that none have the same batches of components in the same places and that the ASIC has changed to further confuse the issue.
I'll post the rest of the CardPIX in a reply below to ease load times . . .
. . . and to give me time to get around to taking them and to do the further testing!