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Does anybody have a copy of the Apple Tech Notes put out by the International Apple Core [message #83190] Mon, 10 June 2013 21:21
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| Re -- Anybody have a copy of the Apple tech notes from Intl Apple Core ?
| 
| I would be interested to get my hands on the pin designations for each of
| the expansion slots.  I want to do some D/A stuff but want to build my
| own interface (half the fun).  However, I don't want to pay apple for my
| own work and besides it seems no one carries tech manuals like that since
| "no one makes their own hardware."
| Grrrrrrrr.
| 
| -From the padded terminal of ><..!decvax!ittvax!sii!dmcnh!gts

Thanks for the offer.  What I really need is the schematics and
listing of the rom firmware for the extended 80 column COLOR card.
The one with the RGB monitor interface and the double hi-res graphics
firm/hard-ware.

But I would also like to have as much technical information about the
guts of my Apple as I can get.  Hence the request for the tech notes
published by the International Apple Core group.

Incidentally, the pin designations for the expansion slots are given
in the 'Apple II Reference Manual (For the //e only)'  Apple
Publicataion number 030-0357-A.

This manual is very good.  It gives an excellent and very technical
description of just about everything you could want to know about the
base //e hardware and firmware.  It is also likely to be the last
manual that Apple will be publishing in the
'old' style, with circuit diagrams and rom listings and details about
how the hardware accomplishes its magic.  All new manuals will
probably be in the style of the 'Extended 80-Column Text/AppleColor
Adapter Card' manual, which tells you how to use it, but not how it
works.  This speculation I got from talking to a very nice person at
Apple customer assistance in Cupertino.  Her reason for saying this
was that (she said) "There are so many good books and magazine articles
being published nowadays on those subjects, that we think you should
be getting that kind of information from them, instead of us."
You can draw your own conclusions.  I just report the facts as I hear
them.


Thanks!

Rick Thomas
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