A Ludicrous Display

Shargeek 170: bit.ly/4cJ3oJm Retro 67: bit.ly/4aX9K6f

Haha are you messing with Colin with this nice working trackball? 😂

Rotating displays like this have always been an optical illusion to me. When horizontal my mind says it's effectively square, but when vertical it's significantly taller than it is wide

Its actually not ludicrus, my dad had a print shop back in the late 80s and he used monitors like this because fits nicely a A4 paper in desktop publishing apps.

Back in the mid and late 90s, portrait based monitors werent uncommon in graphic design and typography/publishing environments. They allowed you to see an entire page of a document without scrolling up and down. However, they didnt stick around very long, from what I remember. Higher resolution 4x3 monitors started to take over.

Please upload that install floppy to the Macintosh garden! I've tried some of the drivers on the garden and I only get a wonky blue screen on my Pivot card for the SE/30.

Did you see that ludicrous display last night? What was Wenger thinking bringing Walcott on that early.

My first two years of college the computer lab had exactly ONE of these monitors, used for editing and laying out the student newspaper before the data was exported and sent off to be printed.

The screen itself was bigger than the entire mac se. I couldn't imagine how awesome it was to use one of those back when they were new!!

I wanna see Minecraft ported to Mac OS 9 or earlier. I know java executables were never supported but it's gotta be possible, even if its just a port of ClassiCube or a simplified recreation from the ground up. P.S. - We're going to be taking my grandfather off life support today and he was the one who introduced me to classic computers. We used to watch this channel together and tinker with his old Macs and Apple II's and I just wanted to say thank you for the memories. It meant a lot to him that younger people still cared about the computers he loved in his younger years.

The earliest Wacom Cintiq (Cintiq 18SX) was an early 2000s rotating LCD display where you could draw directly on screen like modern tablet displays. Image software like Photoshop could not freely rotate the virtual canvas so the whole thing rotated around its sturdy base like an animator desk. Nowadays modern software can rotate the canvas without rotating the whole interface!

I just finished my SE/30 restoration project with similar specs to yours — 64 megs of RAM, a BlueSCSI v2, and a ROM-inator II, all inside a fancy blue MacEffects case. I was hitting that ADHD wall of, "Welp, that's finished, now I'm bored with it," but this video has me thinking I should set up some eBay alerts for accelerator and video cards.

I had one of those come in when I was working as a service tech around 2000. That thing was awesomeness personified. Today I have two portraits flanking a 4k, things have moved on. Thanks for the mem trip.

You're getting delivery of...an M2 powered accelerator card for the SE. 🤣

The SuperView slams a compressed framebuffer over SCSI. While it doesn't take up ALL of the SCSI bus bandwidth, it does take a sizeable chonk. They really intended it as a color display for DTP work. ;)

I love the notch in the Radius display so it can easily be adjusted!

It has been scientifically proven that no man can attach an object to another object without saying "that's not going anywhere".

I've been working 20+ years in an industry which standardly uses dual monitors in portrait mode, and I've never seen a monitor that can change its own orientation when you rotate it. That's really cool.

In Australia there are so many Macs from the 80's and 90's now that are ending up at deceased estate sales and the poor old widowers have no idea of their value so they just give them away for peanuts. I have amassed a room full in just two years and at least half have original boxes, packing, manuals, software, spare new OEM HDD's and tons of RAM etc. I have every beige tower from Quadra's to the final Power PC's and everything in between. I'm loving it!!!!

I never owned an SE-30, but I did have access to one at my college computer lab! Long Story short: It saved my bacon getting a paper done before a weekend I really wanted to spend goofing off with my friends and not stuck in front of my Mom's OLD typewriter! I really liked the RADIUS Monitors back in the day. In hindsight they remind me of the monitors that the Xerox PARC ALTO used in the '70s, before Apple/Steve Jobs stopped by to beg, borrow, and steal a lot of their ideas for the Lisa/Macintosh! This was a fun video to watch! Your Brain is always asking those "What if we did this with this and combined it with that?" kind of questions and I love it! Would very much like to see a follow up in the future!