Susan Swindon, Wiltshire England
On 3 Apr, 2004, at 10:04, Compact Macs wrote:
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:04:20 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Lapis daughtercard in Mac Plus? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:33:20 -0800 From: "J.S. Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on 4/1/04 2:55 PM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm guessing it's some kind of video out card. I will try to pull the computer apart tonight, and if successful, I'll post pictures to my .Mac site.
The port is a 9 pin D connector, female.
-Hal
FPD? Full Page Display. Won't be color. Used to display the entire page
of a document when you work in publishing, etc.
Nine-pin "D" shell is still pre-VGA PeeCee-type monitors.
There was a VGA version of the Lapis card for the Plus. It would be
interesting if the FPD can be converted to the VGA version. In appearance
there doesn't appear to be a lot of difference other than the connector
and maybe a resistor or two. However, the Lapis cards are built on a big
FPGA or maybe CPLD and it is possible that the programming for the FPD
version of the card has different programming for the FPGA than the VGA
versino of the card.
Either way you still wouldn't get color. The Plus just doesn't support
color in its ROMs AFAIK. Seems like Lapis had some kind of SCSI port
connected apparatus that would get color out of the SE though. I don't
know how that could possibly work, as there's not much difference between
an SE and a Plus.
Jeff Walther
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