Apple Composite Monitor Documentation

Documentation for the AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe and IIc and the earlier ColorMonitor IIe and IIc: Apple's Technical Procedures, the owner's guide and the 1987 data sheet. All three are hosted here and embedded below.

Technical Procedures

AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe/IIc and ColorMonitor IIe/IIc Technical Procedures is the section of Apple Service Technical Procedures: Apple II Family, Volume Two, part number 072-0229, November 1991 build, that covers all the composite colour monitors. The hosted file is 145 pages: the volume's two-page table of contents and the whole section, with pages dated between October 1985 and April 1990.

Contents

• Note (p. 0.0): which AppleColor Composite Monitor matches which ColorMonitor series
• Section 0, Service Notes (pp. 0.3-0.9): upgrade of fuse F901 to 4 A 125 V (Series "H"), LED polarity reversal for the Series "H" Rev. B board
• Section 1, Basics (pp. 1.2-1.5): product description, controls, telling Series "S" from Series "H", the composite versions, Series "H" logic board revisions A and B
• Section 2, Troubleshooting (pp. 2.1-2.5): symptom chart
• Section 3, Take-Apart, Series "S" (pp. 3S.1-3S.43): rear covers for the IIc and IIe cases, CRT discharge, anode cap, main logic board, power supply/panel/AC cord, CRT, control board, WHITE ONLY switch, on/off switches, fuse F871
• Section 3, Take-Apart, Series "H" (pp. 3H.1-3H.50): rear covers, CRT discharge, anode cap, main logic board Rev. A and Rev. B, CRT for each case, LED assemblies, fuses F901 and F902
• Section 4, Adjustments (pp. 4.1-4.14): the live-chassis warning for Series "H" Rev. B, text adjustments, colour adjustments for each series
• Section 5, Illustrated Parts List (pp. 5.1-5.11): each case and series, and packaging

What this document does not contain

No schematics, component values, supply voltages or anode voltage. Apple forbids yoke adjustment on these monitors.

Download: AppleColor Composite Monitor and ColorMonitor IIe and IIc Technical Procedures.pdf

Owner's guide

AppleColor Composite Monitor Owner's Guide, Apple II series, for the Apple II, II Plus, IIe and IIc, copyright 1986. The hosted copy is a 20-page scan with a text layer. A second, darker scan of the same guide is on archive.org as item AppleColor_Composite_Monitor_Owners_Guide.

What this document does not contain

No service information.

Download: AppleColor Composite Monitor Owner's Guide.pdf

Data sheet

AppleColor Composite Monitors, Apple data sheet, July 1987, A2F2220, two pages. It covers the AppleColor Composite Monitor IIe (A2M6021) and the AppleColor Composite Monitor (A2M6020): system requirements, technical specifications (0.52 mm dot pitch, 3 MHz colour and 8 MHz black-and-white bandwidth, 50 W typical) and ordering information.

Download: AppleColor Composite Monitors Data Sheet 1987.pdf

Pages that cite these documents

• Apple Composite Monitor: models, series, specifications, part numbers
• Apple Composite Monitor General Maintenance: safety, fuses, LED polarity, adjustments
• Apple Composite Monitor Troubleshooting Guide: Apple's symptom chart