Apple Workstation/Portrait Video Card

The Workstation/Portrait Video Card is a 2-bit grayscale NuBus video card released in 1988 capable of showing 4 shades of grey simultaneously or 16-shade 4-bit grayscale with an optional VRAM upgrade. Unlike nearly every Apple display product, the Workstation/Portrait Video Card uses a 13w3 video connector instead of the standard db-15 connector used until the use of PC standard VGA connectors.

Its name comes from the unusually tall 640 x 870 pixel resolution, which produces an image to match a sheet of paper being held in a normal "tall" position. The pairing of the Apple Portrait Display is needed as no other Apple displays support its resolution.

The card uses the same Apple/Toshiba 344S0077 video controller as used by the Apple High Resolution Display Video Card.

Apparently some versions of this card use a standard db-15 connector, however, I have never actually seen one.

The card is of a pretty standard Apple NuBus card design for the time. As you can see, my card has a damaged NuBus slot. It works perfectly though.	Here you see the main video processor, which is designed by both Apple and Toshiba.
The two banks of video memory. The row of empty slots is available for memory expansion.	Here you see the unusual (for Apple) 13w3 video connector.

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