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From: Jenkins_RWA@admdev.cut.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Radius Pivot
Message-ID: <2050.25f2f716@admdev.cut.oz>
Date: 5 Mar 90 15:32:37 GMT
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In article <1760@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU 
 (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> In article <90063.015002ALE101@psuvm.psu.edu> ALE101@psuvm.psu.edu 
> (Allen Edmiston) writes:
>>i also noticed this article... i wonder if it's possible to make an init
>>and be able to take your apple color or mono monitor and set it on it's side
>>and tell this init/cdev to change the orientation... can it work?
> 
> Considering the amount of heat that my AppleColor RGB monitor generates, I'd
 [etc on heat]> 
> 
> Anybody familiar with the guts of the Apple monitors want to comment on
> alternative orientations?
> 
> --Mike
-- 
 Well, I'm not an engineer's armpit, but I have actually been over this ground
before.

At the Apple christmas party last year (seriously!) we discussed the idea of 
putting the Apple portrait display on its side with an apple systems engineer,
primarily because I was trying to design landscape-mode forms on an SE/30, and
was having no fun.

He suggested that twisting the signal through 90 degrees and changing the
aspect ratio from one to the other was a damn sight more involved than knocking
up a cdev in MPW Pascal. Apparently the hardware is rather intent on displaying
in the tall orientation, and to make matters worse he even suggested that
constructing a special video card would not make any difference. 

It appears to be all down to the monitor design, and it seems that the Pivot
has it, and the Apple monitors don't.

As far as heat goes, Mike is absolutely right. The way the boards are oriented
in the Apple hardware is great as long as they're upright. 
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