Radius Monitor

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Thu Jun 4 03:09:43 1998

On 3 Jun 98 at 16:14, Shawn Rutledge wrote:

> > One of my recent finds was a Radius Full Page monitor. I has a 9pin Dshell
> > F video socket. It's like a 14 " set on it's side. Does anyone have any info on
> > this beast ? Drivers, what it was used with, etc.
>
> Probably was used with a Mac. The earliest ones I've heard of plugged
> into a special port (card?) which you could put in an SE (I know,
> those weren't generally upgradeable, but I once saw one with the port for
> the Radius, about halfway up the backside of the case). Being 9-pin
> presumably this is the grayscale version. Most (all?) of that type were
> the kind that have a mercury switch to sense the position; if you tilted
> it into landscape-mode, it would inform the computer to
> switch video modes and rotate the image to match. So you could have either
> one high-res full page, or be able to see two pages side-by-side.
>
Definitely sounds like a keeper. Now to find the adapter for my Mac+.

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 03:09:43 BST