Mac IIci with portrait display

congrats! they are really nice looking machines!

Congrats, portraits are the bomb, but they're a little too tall sitting on top of the IIx/IIci for my neck-strain.

Your IIsi would make a handy base for the portrait, put your IIci into MiniTower mode next to it and KVM the two IIs to the Portrait and a single KBD/Mouse for a nice desktop PlayStation.

Is it the Radius Color Pivot? Got one of those today in the latest conquest adventure. Connected it to my spare IIci. Nice monitor. In portrait mode, it's 640x870. In landscape mode, it becomes the equivalent of a 16" monitor, so 832x624.

-J

I haven't even plugged it in, I am not sure. I have the video card for it but not sure. I didn't even ask lol, I was too excited getting the Mac. He also gave me an external scsi CDROM (caddy style) and a syquest 88mb drive with disks.

Anyway, cool score... If you've some free time this afternoon, go have some fun with your new acquisition. If the sound is barely audible at full volume, it's time to recap the motherboard. Tantalum caps are your friend.

-J

Apple only ever made (Radius OEM'd it for Apple) the one Portrait Monitor, no swivel base, it's a IICX topper.

That's an interesting point about the Pivot, I've never heard that little tidbit before, which Pivot and Card combo do you have, or is it the VGA version?

^ It's the LE version. Came with the Radius Color Pivot video card. Does have a VGA port on the back of the monitor itself, but the cable goes from VGA to Mac RGB DB-15...

-J

The video card says raster ops for II portrait display. The portrait display is black and white and when I open the monitor control panel it says its goes 4 shades under black and white and 4 in color. There are some open chip slots on the card but the monitor is black and white so no need to mess with it. Has a cache card in it. Boots fast under 7.1 8 Meg's of ram but hard drive was dead had a spare of course. Also has Ethernet card so that's cool. Volume is great no leakage I can see on the board, o e question tho where is the pram battery? Is it under the power supply or the floppy?

The Portrait Monitor is greyscale, so there is point in fiddling further.

What does the big nameplate on the back of the monitor say? Is the connector standard Mac DA-19 or the weird lookin' 13W3?

Black and white and grayscale have been use synonymously/confused since day one. Black and white is single bit, grayscale ramps from there up to 8-bit/256 shades of gray, which is what Apple's Macintosh Portrait Display is capable of doing. If the slots on your RasterOps card were full it'd probably do better than two-bit grayscale.

Some sources say it works with machines that uses DB-15 cables("Quadra & Centris series supports any display"), some say it uses a 13W3. Do they come in two different versions? Which computer uses 13W3?

Does it really weight 35 lb./16 kg?

Edit: By this picture it looks like it came in two versions?

Apple made a cable that was db-15 on one end 13w3 on the other end

590-0615

I have the tilt swivel base for it

That's the cable I have, db15 with the 13 3 on the other.

I also have the cable with the 3w3 on both ends

590-0574

Is the tilt and swivel base an Apple product or a second source product? Piccies please! :beige:

Its the apple made base

it fit both the 13 inch color display and the full page

I have a few of these

i will pm you about price

Pics, pics, pics! I love the portrait displays. I've always wanted one.

The web site won't allow my iPhone pics, if I put it on Facebook can I bring a format over that will work?

No, not unless you have your profile set to public.

Use someplace like tinypic.com or imageshack.us .

Or flickr, which has a group associated with this site on it. Link is next to the donate link at the top of the page.

-J