Apple QuickTake 100 Documentation

Apple's documentation for the Apple QuickTake 100: the owner's guide for Macintosh and the QuickTake 100 Service Source, both embedded below as PDFs.

User's guide for Macintosh

The Apple QuickTake 100 User's Guide for Macintosh is Apple Computer's owner's manual for the camera, copyright 1994, part number 030-6161-A. The hosted copy is Apple's own Acrobat edition, 79 pages with a text layer, distilled in 1995.

Contents

From the guide's contents page:

• Chapter 1, Getting Started With the QuickTake 100 Camera (p. 1): package contents and system requirements (p. 2), the camera at a glance (p. 3), charging the NiCad batteries (p. 4), installing the batteries (p. 5), installing the software (p. 6-7), upgrading the system software (p. 8)
• Chapter 2, Using the Camera to Take Pictures (p. 9): focal and flash range (p. 11), flash and resolution settings (p. 12-13), picture count and battery level (p. 14), timer (p. 15), waking the camera (p. 16)
• Chapter 3, Using the Camera With Your Macintosh (p. 17): connecting (p. 18-19), transferring and working with pictures (p. 20-34), naming the camera (p. 35), setting the clock (p. 36), taking pictures from the Macintosh (p. 37), erasing (p. 38), the power adapter (p. 39), the travel case and battery booster pack (p. 40)
• Chapter 4, QuickTake Software Menu Commands (p. 41-50)
• Chapter 5, Maintenance and Troubleshooting (p. 51-54)
• Appendix A, Specifications (p. 55-56); Appendix B, Battery Information (p. 57-59); Appendix C, Using the Camera with a Windows-Based PC (p. 61); Appendix D, Using QuickTake Setup (p. 63-64); index

What this document does not contain

An owner's guide: no service procedures, no schematic and no description of the inside of the camera. The Windows edition of the camera had its own guide, which is not hosted here.

Download: Apple QuickTake 100 Users Guide for Macintosh 1994.pdf

Service Source

The QuickTake 100 Service Source is Apple's service document for the camera, 23 pages, taken from the Service Manuals folder of the Apple Service Source 2.0 CD (1996). The PDF was created in November 1995 and revised in January 1996. The CD holds two copies under slightly different names with the same text.

Contents

• Specifications: Characteristics (p. 1), Environmental (p. 2), Electrical (p. 3), Physical (p. 4)
• Parts (Parts 1 to 15): Macintosh accessory kit 601-0485; battery booster pack 922-0751; battery rechargers 922-0661 (US, 110 V) and J922-0661, Z922-0661, X922-0661 and B922-0661 (Japan, Europe, Australia, UK); DIN-8 to DB-9 cable 922-0676; Macintosh DIN-8 to DIN-8 cable 922-0671; PC adaptor DB-9/DB-25 922-0675; battery cover 922-0673; warranty reimbursement code 011-0083; neck strap 922-0674; 17 W power adapter 922-0043 (replacing 699-0517); whole unit 661-0880 (international only)

What this document does not contain

No take-apart procedure, troubleshooting chart, exploded view, board-level parts or schematic. The camera itself was a whole-unit replacement.

Download: Apple QuickTake 100 Service Source.pdf

Other sources

These are cited on the QuickTake pages but not hosted here:

• Apple's Tech Info Library articles on the QuickTake 100, in the archive.org collection Apple's Technical Information Library Articles (file TA30000-TA39999).
• Apple Facts, October 1994, with a QuickTake 100 product page, at vintageapple.org.
• John Larish's Apple QuickTake 100 Magic Lantern Guide (1994), a third-party book, scanned on archive.org as apple-quick-take-100.

Pages that cite these documents

• Apple QuickTake 100: specifications, history, hardware and connection
• Apple QuickTake 100 General Maintenance: cleaning, batteries, charger part numbers, storage limits and power
• Apple QuickTake 100 Troubleshooting Guide: Apple's problem list and the whole-unit part number
• Apple QuickTake accessories: order numbers and service part numbers
• Apple QuickTake Software: QuickTake 1.0 and QuickTake Setup