PORTRAIT MODE DOOM NOW EXISTS
https://youtu.be/V74eiGAbvDk

I sold one of these to an engineer at Apple in Cupertino a couple years ago. He was sort of secretly building out a weird museum of vintage apple hardware at the infinite loop campus and running original software and programs through all this stuff. He had to figure out how to get the pivot monitor to play nice with the old Macintoshes without any software floppies. He couldn’t send me pictures but it was awesome to see that there was a weird unofficial skunkworks at Apple goofing around with vintage oddware on the company dime.

Interesting illusion there: almost "square" looking monitor turns into a thin smartphone when rotated 90°.

I do love how smoothly the CRT monitor rotates from landscape to portrait mode and back, and how it fades out and fades in the image while switching from one display mode to the other.

I love how they thought to knock out the corner so it doesn't impact the base when rotating

Watched this video on my smartphone with “orientation-lock” enabled, so that I could pivot my screen in sync with LGR.

12:09 The diagonal artifact line is due to the fact that the refresh of the monitor is still horizontal (right to left when in vertical position) so it messes up with the camera horizontal rolling shutter (up to down).

I may not be deaf, but I still love my subtitles. Thanks a trillion for consistently putting subtitles in your videos!!👍

The diagonal line visible on the screen when it's rotated is from the camera's rolling shutter catching the CRT's electron beam. It's a horizontal line when the CRT is in landscape, and it has a weird diagonal tearing effect while it's being rotated. Neat.

I like that you have technology connections on in the background.

"Someone go make a Pivot Doom for DOS from a source port" - Oh no. What have you done? What have you done, Clint!?!

My mother worked in a civil engineering firm in the 80's and 90's and I remember they had a few of them and I thought they were the coolest thing ever.

1991: Rotating screen smoothly fades in and out
2021: Rotating screen has a seizure, crashes half of your programs, and randomly throws your windows everywhere

I could see vertical SHMUP fans losing their minds over this.

Me: What the heck is that line on my screen? goes to wipe it away
LGR: "The rolling diagonal line isn't visible in person"
Me: Oh

“Cool Crab 😎 🦀 at his absolute vertically coolest” made my day.

My stupid brain tells me that the monitor is square in horizontal orientation, but rectangular in vertical orientation.

Our highschool's computer lab had these but for Macintosh tho, it was really neat for page layout when using the word processor

The most amazing thing is how they designed the logo to work regardless of what direction the screen is oriented. That's a really nice touch.

"I have tried lubricating it in multiple different ways" -LGR 2021 ;)