• Updated 2023-07-12: Hello, Guest! Welcome back, and be sure to check out this follow-up post about our outage a week or so ago.

100 Macintosh Service Course: Service Training August 1991

jajan547

Well-known member
Back again with another upload. This is the training guide provided to students learning Apple Service Techniques from Apple Service Training Centers in August of 1991. Please do note It contains some handwritten notes from the previous student/participant, this is minor and in no way affects the binder.

 

joshc

Well-known member
Interesting that they went to the effort of including a line drawing of the Apple I in there…
 

CC_333

Well-known member
Interesting that they went to the effort of including a line drawing of the Apple I in there…
I guess Apple of 1991 still cared somewhat about its past.

Apple of now (2015-present) – in my opinion – barely seems to acknowledge most of their products that existed before five years ago (interestingly, however, I am beginning to notice a trend of them taking older product names and reusing them for new products, for example: Apple Studio Display (used to name the newest display, and also as a moniker for the new Pro-level Mimi-like Mac Studio), iPhone SE (for the base model, budget friendly model phone).

c
 

Corgi

Well-known member
I guess Apple of 1991 still cared somewhat about its past.

Apple of now (2015-present) – in my opinion – barely seems to acknowledge most of their products that existed before five years ago (interestingly, however, I am beginning to notice a trend of them taking older product names and reusing them for new products, for example: Apple Studio Display (used to name the newest display, and also as a moniker for the new Pro-level Mimi-like Mac Studio), iPhone SE (for the base model, budget friendly model phone).

c
Maybe they don't acknowledge them in the 'general' sense, but they know that the people keeping their platform viable – the developers – remember and appreciate.

See these two Tweets from WWDC22 (held just five months ago) as an example, where Apple had a TAM in attendance even:

There are a lot of references to "classic" products in developer literature as well. And all the product icons were redrawn in Big Sur; some of them are really beautiful takes on the hardware (screenshots from /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Resources in Ventura):

Screenshot 2022-11-05 at 3.57.54 PM.pngScreenshot 2022-11-05 at 3.57.12 PM.png

So while I do think they could definitely stand to acknowledge history more, I don't think they've forgotten it, either.
 

CC_333

Well-known member
@Corgi Wow, I didn't know about all that! Neat!!

It's nice to see that there is some acknowledgement of Apple's past after all.

Of course, there's lots of things from the past that deserve to be ignored (the Apple III, the labyrinthian Performa lineups, the bad management mistakes of the 90s, etc.) so it's just as well that they stick with the second Jobs era lineup, largely because it has arguably been Apple's most successful one by far.

Still, though, the "distant" past (1976-1997) does matter, because their recent successes didn't happen suddenly in a void. It took time and many mistakes to get things right.

c
 

jajan547

Well-known member
Big update! I found the missing manuals albeit this is the April 1990 set. These include “100 Macintosh Service Course Prerequisite Manual Volume 1”, “100 Macintosh Service Course Prerequisite Manual Volume 2”, “100 Macintosh Service Course Lab Manual”, “203 Laser Printers Service Course Pre Work.” All of these fall in the same line of April 1990. I will scan and upload these when they arrive.
 
Top