The Apple Macintosh Primer 1984
The Apple Macintosh Primer by James D. Sadler (DATAMOST), Reston Publishing Company, a Prentice-Hall company, © 1984 DATAMOST, Inc., ISBN 0-8359-0233-1. The scan is 113 pages.
This is not an Apple publication. It is a third-party book, and it is a secondary source: where it disagrees with Apple's own service documentation, the Apple document wins.
What it covers
[edit | edit source]A beginner's introduction written before the Macintosh was publicly released. The acknowledgements record the problem and the access: there were no user groups, articles or books to draw on, and Guy Kawasaki and Cary Clark of Apple supplied the hardware, software and answers. The copyright page states that "Apple Computer, Inc. was not in any way involved in the actual writing of this book", while acknowledging that Apple supplied technical information and the photographs.
What it does not contain
[edit | edit source]- Nothing serviceable. No specifications, no procedures, no part numbers, no diagrams.
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- Macintosh 128K — as a pre-release account of the machine
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