On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Sellam Ismail <sellam at vintagetech.com> wrote:
Has anyone ever worked with a Radius Pivot monitor? ?I'm trying to get one
hooked up to a Mac IIci or IIsi but I need drivers and an appropriate
video card.
I'm pretty sure I have both but finding them at this point will be a major
pain. ?If anyone has the drivers handy, and can let me know what an
approproiate video card would be to interface the monitor to a Mac, I
would greatly appreciate the help.
AFAIK, you'll probably need a Radius-brand video adapter that knows
how to handle the pivot function. Here's a link to what looks like
the IIsi version of the card -
http://www.applefritter.com/node/4347
If anyone reading this thread has a cache of Radius materials, I'd
like to hear about it too. I've had a Radius Fullpage display and
card for a Mac SE for some time but ISTR the last time I tried to set
it up, the firmware on the card was a couple of point-releases too old
for the drivers that we found online.
Essentially, long ago, when such things were used daily, my mother
bought a used FPM and SE card and asked me to install them in her SE.
Physical installation was easy, but we never could come up with a
combination of software and firmware that worked. IIRC, the screen
lit up, erased to all white or a half-tone pattern (possibly with a
Radius logo) - all card-to-monitor activities - then blanked because
there was nothing happening from the OS-to-card part of things, and
the drivers we had either didn't recognize the card at all, or at
best, threw an error about a firmware mismatch (I _think_ there may
have been a mention of needing, say, 1.53 and the card was marked
1.51, but those numbers could be off by a bit).
I looked around in the days before the web when everything was on ftp
servers, and never came up with anything useful. Now, my hope is that
someone, somewhere, archived all things Radius and I have a chance of
coming up with some combination of bits that works.
It's no emergency, but I would like to see this thing work at least once.
-ethan