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'''''Understanding Apple BASIC: Step-by-Step Instruction for the Beginner — An Alfred Handy Guide''''' by '''Richard G. Peddicord''', Alfred Publishing Co., Sherman Oaks, California, 1983. The scan is '''62 pages'''. | |||
== What it covers == | |||
A pocket guide to Applesoft BASIC. '''It is about the Apple II, not the Macintosh''' — | |||
it predates the Macintosh entirely — and at 62 pages it is the shortest document in this | |||
category. | |||
The copyright page carries a disclaimer worth quoting: "This Handy Guide '''is not a publication of | |||
Apple Computer Inc.''' and should not be used in lieu of the instruction manuals that accompany their | |||
products. All information regarding Apple computers may not be accurate or completely up to date.” | |||
== This is not a repair source == | |||
This is a '''programming''' book. It contains '''no schematics, no parts lists, no component values, | |||
no voltages, no connector pinouts and no service procedures''', and nothing in it should be cited for | |||
a hardware figure. Apple's software documentation and its compiler manuals describe the machine as | |||
the programmer sees it, which is not the machine the technician sees. | |||
For hardware data use: | |||
* [[:Category:Apple Service Source|Apple Service Source]] — Apple's own service manuals, module | |||
level: specifications, symptom charts, take-apart and module part numbers | |||
* Apple's '''Developer Notes''' — the one class of Apple developer document that ''does'' carry | |||
rail currents, expansion-slot power budgets and connector pinouts. Several are held here, for | |||
example [[Macintosh IIci Developer Note]], [[Macintosh IIsi Developer Note]] and | |||
[[Macintosh LC 475 and Quadra 605 Developer Note]]. | |||
* [[Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets]] and [[The Dead Mac Scrolls]] — component-level, for | |||
the compact Macs | |||
== Related documents held here == | |||
* [[Apple II Reference Manual]] — Apple's own reference for the machine this describes | |||
* [[Apple IIe Reference Manual]] | |||
<pdf> File:Understanding_Apple_Basic_1983.pdf </pdf> | |||
Download: [[:File:Understanding_Apple_Basic_1983.pdf|Understanding_Apple_Basic_1983.pdf]] (2.3 MB) | |||
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