Macintosh Repair Resources
| Macintosh Repair Resources |
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| Troubleshooting and repair manuals for classic Macintosh computers |
This page lists the repair books, service manuals and technical references held on this wiki for maintaining and restoring Macintosh computers. Every title below has been checked to confirm that the file it names is actually hosted here. The complete Apple holding is on the Apple Documentation page, and Apple's own service manuals are indexed at Apple Service Source.
Repair and troubleshooting books
[edit | edit source]| Title | Year | What it covers | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets | 1990 | Larry Pina's component-level repair and upgrade work on the compact Macs. The standard reference for the 128K, 512K, Plus and SE. | Open |
| Macintosh II Repair and Upgrade Secrets | 1991 | The same treatment for the modular Macintosh II family. | Open |
| The Dead Mac Scrolls | 1992 | Symptom-by-symptom diagnosis of dead and non-booting Macintoshes, with board-level fixes. | Open |
| Chilton's Guide to Macintosh Repair and Maintenance | 1986 | Maintenance and repair of the earliest Macintoshes. | Open |
| Troubleshooting Your Macintosh | 1992 | User-level fault-finding: software conflicts, startup failures, peripherals. | Open |
Apple's own service and technical documentation
[edit | edit source]| Title | Year | What it covers | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Macintosh Service Guide, Volume 1 | 1990 | Apple's service guide for the compact and early modular machines. | Open |
| Apple Macintosh Service Guide, Volume 2 | 1992 | Continuation covering the later machines. | Open |
| Guide to the Macintosh Family Hardware, 2nd ed. | 1990 | Apple's hardware reference for the Plus through the IIfx: memory maps, ROM configurations and access rates, expansion, I/O. The primary source for much of Macintosh Old World ROM and Macintosh Toolbox. | Open |
| Inside Macintosh, Volumes I–III | 1985 | The primary reference for the Macintosh Toolbox: trap mechanism, Resource Manager, Event Manager, Window Manager, QuickDraw, and the System Traps appendix. | Open |
| Inside Macintosh X-Ref | 1988 | Cross-reference index to the Inside Macintosh volumes. | Open |
| Apple TechStep User Guide | Apple's handheld logic-board diagnostic tool. | Open | |
| eMac Service Source | 2004 | Apple's service manual for the Apple eMac: PMU reset, POST beep codes, the display/analogue voltage jumper, and the No Power measurement sequence. | Open |
Per-machine service manuals
[edit | edit source]Apple published a Service Source volume for almost every Macintosh. Over a hundred of them are held here and indexed at Apple Service Source. Fourteen of them cover machines that have no article on this wiki yet — the Macintosh Portable, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, the NuBus and PCI Power Macintoshes and the Processor Upgrade card. They are listed with what each one uniquely contains under Machines documented here but not yet written up on Maintenance Guides.
These are the primary sources for the specification, battery-threshold and adjustment figures quoted on this wiki's machine pages — if a figure on a machine page is not cited to one of them, treat it with suspicion.
General and third-party Macintosh books held here
[edit | edit source]The books below are not service manuals. None of them carries a schematic, a parts list or a component value, and no figure on this wiki should be cited from any of them. They are listed because they answer a different and real question: what a machine shipped with, what it was supposed to do, and what its owner was told at the time. Each has been checked against the document itself.
The Macintosh Bible
[edit | edit source]Arthur Naiman and contributors, Goldstein & Blair (Peachpit Press from the fourth edition), Berkeley. Four editions are held, and they grow: 1st, 1986 (435 pp) · 2nd, 1988–89 (771 pp) · 3rd, 1991 (1,126 pp) · 4th, 1987–92 (1,262 pp). Useful for establishing what a machine shipped with and how it was meant to behave. The fourth edition is the one that records the practical limit on a Macintosh Portable lead-acid pack: below 5.4 V the machine can no longer recharge it.
General guides to the machine
[edit | edit source]- The Apple Macintosh Primer 1984 — James D. Sadler / DATAMOST, Reston Publishing,
1984, 113 pp. Written for the 128K, before there was anything else.
- Presenting the Macintosh 1984 — Merl K. Miller and Mary A. Myers, dilithium Press,
1984, 125 pp. Same vintage, same audience.
Lu, Microsoft Press, 1985, 422 pp) and 3rd edition (Cary Lu with Ellen W. Chu, 1988, 395 pp). Cary Lu's book is the best contemporary account of how the hardware and the system fitted together.
- Under the Apple 1987 — Howard Bornstein, 1987, 363 pp, on Macintosh desk
accessories.
- The Color Mac 1992 — Marc D. Miller and Randy Zaucha, Hayden, 1992, 333 pp: colour
design and production, which is where the display-calibration expectations of the period come from.
- The Power Mac Book 1995 (Ron Pronk, Coriolis, 1995, 411 pp) and
The PowerPC Macintosh Book 1994 (Stephan Somogyi, Addison-Wesley, 1994, 241 pp) — the PowerPC transition as it was explained to owners at the time.
- The Tao of AppleScript 1993 — Derrick Schneider for BMUG, Hayden, 1993, 311 pp.
- The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt 1998 — David Pogue, Berkley Books, 1998,
140 pp. A catalogue of hidden messages and jokes in Apple hardware and software, and expressly unauthorised — its own copyright page says so. Nothing serviceable in it, but it is the reason several ROM-resident oddities on Macintosh Old World ROM are documented at all.
Apple's own non-service publications
[edit | edit source]- The Basic Elements Of Design Apple Computer 1991 — Apple Computer, 1991, 80 pp,
part of the Apple Publishing System series.
- Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines 1992 — Apple Computer, Addison-Wesley, 1992,
398 pp. Apple-authored, which its standard manual warranty text confirms.
- Macintosh XL Screen Kit — Apple, 1985, part number 030-1240-A, 28 pp; the
MacWorks XL screen kit for the Macintosh XL.
- Programming with AppleTalk 1991 — Michael Peirce, Addison-Wesley, 1991, 278 pp. A
programming book, but the one place here that treats AppleTalk as a network rather than an API.
- Programming The Laserwriter 1991 — the file for this page was never uploaded.
The page is kept so the gap is visible rather than silent; nothing about the document is asserted.
The wiki's full Apple book holding is indexed at Category:Apple Documentation for general titles and Category:Apple Programming Documentation for the programming and compiler manuals.
Related pages on this wiki
[edit | edit source]- Sad Mac Error Codes — decoding startup failures, with the Sad Mac Decoder tool
- Macintosh Floppy Drive Maintenance
- Macintosh HDD Maintenance
- CRT Discharge Procedure
- Capacitor Failure Symptoms
- Battery Explosion, Capacitor or Corrosion Damage
- Recommended Tools
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