Understanding Apple Basic 1983

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:

• 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

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