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Apple QuickTime Conferencing Camera Documentation

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Apple's documentation for the Apple QuickTime Conferencing Camera (QuickTime Conferencing Camera 100): the Video Conferencing Service Source, the Apple VideoPhone Kit Installation Manual and the QuickTime Conferencing Kit data sheet, all embedded below as PDFs.

Service Source

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The Video Conferencing Service Source is Apple's service document for the QuickTime Conferencing Kit and the QuickTime Conferencing ISDN Kit, 44 pages, from the Service Manuals folder of the Apple Service Source 2.0 CD (1996). The PDF was last revised in February 1996.

Contents

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  • Basics: Introduction (p. 1), Requirements (p. 2), QuickTime Conferencing Kit (p. 3), QuickTime Conferencing ISDN Kit (p. 4), QTC Camera 100 General Description (p. 5) and Connections (p. 6)
  • Specifications: camera characteristics, lens, sensitivity, video output, connectors, electrical and environmental (p. 1-7); H.320 NuBus card (p. 8-9); handset (p. 10)
  • Troubleshooting: connection, sound and video symptom charts and miscellaneous problems (p. 1-14)
  • Parts: camera 661-0977; H.320 NuBus card 661-0978; integrated power/video cable 922-1521; RCA to RCA cable 922-2019; S-video to power cable 922-2020; ISDN handset 922-1633; handset cable 922-1634; flat cable 922-1635

What this document does not contain

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No take-apart procedure, exploded view or schematic for the camera. The Service Source says that Acrobat versions of the camera, software and technical background manuals were on the Service Source Companion CD; they are not hosted here.

Download: Apple Video Conferencing Service Source.pdf

Installation manual

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The Apple VideoPhone Kit Installation Manual is Apple's 1996 booklet for the VideoPhone Kit, 22 pages with a text layer; the cover and copyright page are at the end of the PDF.

Contents

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  • Introduction and system requirements (p. 1-2)
  • Care and cleaning, connecting the camera (p. 3); positioning, pan and tilt (p. 4); software settings and the camera controls: power switch, manual focus, iris and the 50 Hz/60 Hz switch (p. 5-7)
  • Installing System 7.5.3, the System 7.5.5 Update, Open Transport 1.1.1, the Apple VideoPhone software, Timbuktu Pro and Acrobat Reader (p. 8-13)
  • Opening Apple VideoPhone (p. 14); conferencing over the Internet with the Apple Internet Dialer (p. 15-17)
  • Camera technical information (p. 17-18)
  • Communications regulation information (p. 19-20)

What this document does not contain

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No service information. The on-screen Apple VideoPhone Guide, which the manual refers to for using the software, is not part of it.

Download: Apple VideoPhone Kit Installation Manual 1996.pdf

Data sheet

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QuickTime Conferencing Kit is Apple's two-page product data sheet, dated August 1996, literature number L01519B. It gives the kit's features and contents, the camera and software specifications, the compatible computers and the order numbers: M4490LL/B for the kit, M4585LL/A (NuBus) and M4616LL/A (PCI) for the ISDN Kit.

Download: Apple QuickTime Conferencing Kit Data Sheet 1996.pdf

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