Macintosh Programming Secrets 1988

This book was held under two page titles, the other being Macintosh Programming Secrets1988 (no space before the year). That title is now a redirect here. Both pages described the same edition, the same ISBN and the same 376 pages; only the scans differ, and both scans are linked below.

What it covers

Scott Knaster's book of undocumented and half-documented Toolbox behaviour — the companion to his How to Write Macintosh Software.

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:

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

The second scan

The same book is held here twice, as two independent scans of the same edition. The second file is Macintosh_Programming_Secrets1988.pdf (117.3 MB), uploaded under the mis-spelt page title that now redirects here. Neither scan is a different edition; use whichever downloads faster.

What it covers

This is not a repair source

Related documents held here

The second scan