The service manual and schematic were very different. The service manuals are everywhere. Schematics, not so much.
Macintosh classic - orizzontal stripes
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I don't think most technicians of the day foresaw the need to have these handy. When these Macs were current, they'd do what current Apple techs do--swap the board out with a new one. Even 15 years ago, most people seemed to repair their bad boards (including those which probably had bad caps or something similar that we now fix) by swapping them out.
Plus, the average tech probably isn't as into schematics as some of the specialists on this forum are. Most of them probably aren't really even trained in that department. (The same goes for CS guys). I'm pretty sure most IT certs don't require it.
Speaking of teaching, am I the only one bothered by the fact nobody has changed the title of this topic to "horizontal" stripes yet? Maybe it's just my educator tendencies...
Plus, the average tech probably isn't as into schematics as some of the specialists on this forum are. Most of them probably aren't really even trained in that department. (The same goes for CS guys). I'm pretty sure most IT certs don't require it.
Speaking of teaching, am I the only one bothered by the fact nobody has changed the title of this topic to "horizontal" stripes yet? Maybe it's just my educator tendencies...
Apple did not release schematics for any Macs, as far as I know.
A technician taking the time to trace out every connection on a logic board does own the rights to their creation: it's an original work, only deduced from studying another piece of art. It's like if I wrote a critical analysis of a novel: the novel is someone else's copyright, the analysis is mine.
What would be illegal would be reproducing the actual circuit board layout, which is Apple's copyrighted original art.
A technician taking the time to trace out every connection on a logic board does own the rights to their creation: it's an original work, only deduced from studying another piece of art. It's like if I wrote a critical analysis of a novel: the novel is someone else's copyright, the analysis is mine.
What would be illegal would be reproducing the actual circuit board layout, which is Apple's copyrighted original art.
