rbt@sftig.UUCP (R.Thomas) (11/30/84)
| 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 ihnp4!btlunix!rbt