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Radius Pivot: The Rotating CRT Monitor from 1991 [LGR Oddware]
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Date: 2022-04-14
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greenaum
The DIP switch options, the ones about 8 / 16-bit ROM / RAM access, I'd check those out. Might be the card is back-compatible with 8-bit ISA slots, some are, the extra bits just overhanging the slot. Obviously no point using those pins if they're not connected in an 8088, but. Using 8-bit mode would be more compatible, since there were a fair few 8088 machines about in 1991. It would reduce user complaints, even at the costs of half the speed, which people would just put up with.
So maybe that's worth checking out. Yeah even so, 1MB video RAM is a lot to throw about over ISA anyway, but I would want to either read up, or just blunder ahead and try it anyway, see if those options help. ROM prob won't make much difference. Since almost no software used ROM BIOS calls, since they were famously terrible. But if you can double the RAM bandwidth that'd be nice!
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The DIP switch options, the ones about 8 / 16-bit ROM / RAM access, I'd check those out. Might be the card is back-compatible with 8-bit ISA slots, some are, the extra bits just overhanging the slot. Obviously no point using those pins if they're not connected in an 8088, but. Using 8-bit mode would be more compatible, since there were a fair few 8088 machines about in 1991. It would reduce user complaints, even at the costs of half the speed, which people would just put up with.
So maybe that's worth checking out. Yeah even so, 1MB video RAM is a lot to throw about over ISA anyway, but I would want to either read up, or just blunder ahead and try it anyway, see if those options help. ROM prob won't make much difference. Since almost no software used ROM BIOS calls, since they were famously terrible. But if you can double the RAM bandwidth that'd be nice!
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Cary
I actually almost bought a later model one of these units from Radius. I had taken a job working at the call center for a local ISP after college. It was a owned by a local electronics store and they literally set the call center up at the end of the showroom. I was the only person in the call center that actually had hands-on experience with Windows 95, so it was half a day of awful calls, and I remember looking at the Radius at my first lunch break thinking, -this place suck, so I'm going to quit as soon as I can afford this monitor. - Played with it for half an hour after my shift to remind myself why I needed to come into work in the morning.
I quit an hour in on my second day.
(The company wasn't selling Windows 95 PCs, so I can't say if it actually supported Windows 95. But is seems to rock Win 3. 11)
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I actually almost bought a later model one of these units from Radius. I had taken a job working at the call center for a local ISP after college. It was a owned by a local electronics store and they literally set the call center up at the end of the showroom. I was the only person in the call center that actually had hands-on experience with Windows 95, so it was half a day of awful calls, and I remember looking at the Radius at my first lunch break thinking, -this place suck, so I'm going to quit as soon as I can afford this monitor. - Played with it for half an hour after my shift to remind myself why I needed to come into work in the morning.
I quit an hour in on my second day.
(The company wasn't selling Windows 95 PCs, so I can't say if it actually supported Windows 95. But is seems to rock Win 3. 11)
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H.
Could you explain why scaling would be needed in portrait mode like detailed inbetween 17: 00 - 18: 00? The pixel count would be unchanged, isn't it? why is it squeaky in the first place? It sounds really annoying. I have sensitive ears, nowadays I get bothered with high-pitched noises (coil whine, relating to power delivery etc) in notebooks (in Gigabyte Aorus G17 it seems somewhat prominent, especially when using silent fans, must be temp-related for some components. Otherwise it is a fine monitor. Please keep going on! I wonder, do you have odd devices like FPGA released during 1990-2005, that were targeted for audience interested in learning VHDL?
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Could you explain why scaling would be needed in portrait mode like detailed inbetween 17: 00 - 18: 00? The pixel count would be unchanged, isn't it? why is it squeaky in the first place? It sounds really annoying. I have sensitive ears, nowadays I get bothered with high-pitched noises (coil whine, relating to power delivery etc) in notebooks (in Gigabyte Aorus G17 it seems somewhat prominent, especially when using silent fans, must be temp-related for some components. Otherwise it is a fine monitor. Please keep going on! I wonder, do you have odd devices like FPGA released during 1990-2005, that were targeted for audience interested in learning VHDL?
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ZKH
you can't turn 'any crt' upside down or on it's side. it needs compensation for the earth magnetic field for that OR you can re-adjust the whole damn thing (on the inside; ) again. you can do it with most philips and other proper brand monitors. you can't do it with the cheap shit. if you simply mount them in another position (or even bring them to another part of the planet; ) they turn all kinds of weird colors or go fuzzy. why did we even ever notice this? ehm. try to mount a row of them upside down from the ceiling lol.
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you can't turn 'any crt' upside down or on it's side. it needs compensation for the earth magnetic field for that OR you can re-adjust the whole damn thing (on the inside; ) again. you can do it with most philips and other proper brand monitors. you can't do it with the cheap shit. if you simply mount them in another position (or even bring them to another part of the planet; ) they turn all kinds of weird colors or go fuzzy. why did we even ever notice this? ehm. try to mount a row of them upside down from the ceiling lol.
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Decamate
Amazing to see those Entex and JWP stickers on top of the monitor! I worked at JWP doing field service when we became Entex. Fun fact JWP was short for Jamaica Water and Power - the Jamaica in this case being Jamaica, New York not the country. Somehow they got themselves into the PC repair/VAR business.
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Amazing to see those Entex and JWP stickers on top of the monitor! I worked at JWP doing field service when we became Entex. Fun fact JWP was short for Jamaica Water and Power - the Jamaica in this case being Jamaica, New York not the country. Somehow they got themselves into the PC repair/VAR business.
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Mike
Well I have a DELL Utrasharp 20-inch LCD version that pivots like this. It is currently being stored in my garage. I think it was manufactured in 2006 but I would have to take a look at the back of it again to be sure. It also uses an external power supply brick and has a small built-in 4 port USB 2. 0 hub.
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Well I have a DELL Utrasharp 20-inch LCD version that pivots like this. It is currently being stored in my garage. I think it was manufactured in 2006 but I would have to take a look at the back of it again to be sure. It also uses an external power supply brick and has a small built-in 4 port USB 2. 0 hub.
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John
6: 22 that pinout is actually pretty much standard. Except for pin 5, referred to as -monitor sense-, which is probably just an on/off from the tilt sensor. The serial stuff is normal (used for communicating stuff like the supported resolution, monitor model name, and pixel clocks.
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6: 22 that pinout is actually pretty much standard. Except for pin 5, referred to as -monitor sense-, which is probably just an on/off from the tilt sensor. The serial stuff is normal (used for communicating stuff like the supported resolution, monitor model name, and pixel clocks.
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ICan'tGiveCredit
I was hoping to orient a modern 16: 9 panel to be used as a portrait screen, on my vintage Macintosh; however, it appears there's no way to change the orientation, in System 7. 1. I guess that's why Apple had released a fixed portrait display, c1989.
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I was hoping to orient a modern 16: 9 panel to be used as a portrait screen, on my vintage Macintosh; however, it appears there's no way to change the orientation, in System 7. 1. I guess that's why Apple had released a fixed portrait display, c1989.
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Gunter
I have an old DELL TFT which does the same - without special Hardware. I can flip it, and bang - portrait mode. It's a nice thing. I'm a writer, and writing a novel is fun! I can see so much more text. But for gaming. not so much. Just work.
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I have an old DELL TFT which does the same - without special Hardware. I can flip it, and bang - portrait mode. It's a nice thing. I'm a writer, and writing a novel is fun! I can see so much more text. But for gaming. not so much. Just work.
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Samantha
I don-t know why I did this, but if you were to buy just the monitor itself, it would cost you roughly around $2, 592. 59. And as further explained in the video, without the software/card it-s just a glorified CRT TV that can rotate.
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I don-t know why I did this, but if you were to buy just the monitor itself, it would cost you roughly around $2, 592. 59. And as further explained in the video, without the software/card it-s just a glorified CRT TV that can rotate.
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