A Ludicrous Display 

I was wondering that too lol

That’s the mouse he almost always uses with these videos. The only exception is the hamster mouse that’s occasionally used.

iirc I think it was a playful joke because Colin (This Does Not Compute, and IYL AR, YML TDNC, worth a sub!) just posted a video about a trackball that he wasn't able to resurrect.

He also used a shirt with a mac interface button saying "Sorry" (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5AegNsIsHcY.html), shortly after Colin's video where he couldn't install MacOS 7.1 and the error dialog just shown a single "Sorry" button (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltCdM2x9cYk.html at 16:00)

I opened the comments to say exactly this! 😂 Cheeky, Sean.

I feel the same way. Even 4:3 displays look so much more rectangular when vertical.

The thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in!

Hope he sees this

Some other office environments too; I remember one (attached to a Mac) in the school office when I was a kid ~30 years ago, so the office staff could see a whole page of a document more easily.

Yeah, I worked for a local paper as a teenager in the 90s, and the typesetting, TV schedule and Web departments all had macs with portrait Radius displays. I think they were called PageView or PageDisplay.

we had a graphics/print lab in HS 99-02 where i was working typesetting printing presses plate burning photography developing. We had a whole row of rotating monitors for graphics and production related items. Calling it totally unreasonable seems like click bait garbage

I want to add some extra context, as someone that had the opportunity to use these grayscale beauties during college and drooooooled over them. I realize that must sound nuts when I look at my matched pair of 7:3 monitors that were cheaper together than a Radius was new and say, "eh, they're only 1080p". Having a whole page in portrait mode didn't merely mean letter-size (8.5" x 11" or A4) but tabloid (11" x 17" or A3). Back when a laser printer was far more expensive than three of the computers connected to it via AppleTalk or LocalTalk, you wanted a really good idea how your results would look before you took them to the printers. Oh right, because we were publishing zines and newspapers, not web sites. You had to control for printer roll-off (not the correct term) of white and black. You had 256 shades (8 whole bits!) of gray on screen. However the printer would often turn 85% black saturation or higher into black, 15% black saturation and lower into white. There were tools to create scales for this, so that your photos could look vaguely correct. There was even a Photoshop knock-off that worked only in grayscale. I can see it in my head but cannot recall the name (nor find after 20 minutes of searching). It was my fave for a couple years.

I refuse to build a workstation setup without at least one vertical monitor. Whether it's documents or scrolling Twitter, vertical monitors are extremely useful. Same thing with having a vertical Taskbar for a wide monitor.

Take care with your grandfather.

There is a Java runtime for Mac OS 9. Maybe something with that

@@MaxOakland yeah I tried to figure out someway to run classic survival test on os9 using it but couldn’t get very far

It was basically the most awesome awesomeness since awesomeness began to be awesome -- and an incredible productivity tool into the bargain.

Look for a Micron Exceed video card with the internal CRT greyscale adapter. IIRC there was a project to re-create the internal greyscale part since Micron sold more Exceed video cards than they did the optional internal greyscale adapters.

Well, Radius did actually make accelerator boards that used ARM processors before ARM was established as a separate company. They bought the processors, which were ARM2 devices, from VLSI who, as Acorn's chosen fabricator, were selling them as part of their own product range.

We ran them off our 9500/200 towers. Aldus pagemaker and some Adobe software for Pre-press. Good memories.

My wife had exactly that sweet setup with the SE and the first-gen Radius monitor at work. I was still limping along at home on an original IBM-PC (complete with cassette port) -- but with a Microsoft mouse and Word for DOS (in character mode!) and a third-party hard disk.

How did that work?

@@MaxOakland You added system files and a cdev and after a reboot you basically got a virtual screen. You could move beyond the standard resolution to the side and below. There were functions to zoom in and out and jump around the virtual screen.

@@retropuffer2986 How interesting! There were so many amazing utilities for Macs back then

He actually owns an SE/30 with a 68040 upgrade card (an SE/40?) but I think it takes up the single expansion slot. If you're talking about installing a better 68030 directly in the CPU socket, dunno if that is possible, but also probably nobody wants to part with their '030s.

I don't know what came first but many boards were upgradeable by adding more DIPs.

It HURT to start my day by hearing “512x324”

thanks for this!