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Around '92 I was working for a software house that was having a clear out, and picked up a radius pivot monitor and graphics card, and added it to my Mac IIcx.
by cesaref 2y ago
Around '92 I was working for a software house that was having a clear out, and picked up a radius pivot monitor and graphics card, and added it to my Mac IIcx. The Mac was already old and slow by that time, but I was running Emagic Logic for music composition and midi sequencing, and adding the second display to the machine transformed it into a really awesome tool.
Rotating the monitor and the desktop reorientated, which felt magical at the time. Very clever tech, and lovely integration into the OS.
The monitor was B&W and I seem to remember the card supported 16 grey levels, not sure if it was maxed out with RAM, sometimes you had the option of adding RAM to cards to increase the colour pallette.
Happy times.
- detourdog 2y agoI started work at an interactive museum exhibit design firm that had one. It was a great monitor but I believe its case was made of cast iron. More than anything when I reminisce about that monitor I think of the weight. I collected odd bits into a Mac IIfx and that was an envelope pushing machine for a System 7 Mac in the early 90's.