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Service Manuals
- Thread starter Bunsen
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Nice! I have the Service Source CD to 8/93, no schematics, board level only, nice take apart, troubleshooting and parts lists. I've never seen the hard copy version of the computer service manuals. I also have the Peripheral Interface Guide 1/91 spiral bound booklet that includes Apple II, III, and Lisa stuff as well as the newer Vintage Macs. It's a treasure for the switch settings and cable connection pinouts!
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The invaluable part of the Service Manuals that Bunsen cited is that they include P/N lists as well as the troubleshooting protocols for standard AASP pluck'n'chuck servicing. The contents are also grouped in wide hardware families, which makes comparisons fairly easy. Only the Service Source (repair) portions appear in the standalone .pdf manuals.
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Actually, the early Service Source CDs had the part numbers and stuff too. I have a genuine June 1996 Apple Service Source CD, which has all the service manuals for all Apple gear (excluding Apple II and Lisa series machines and related peripherals) made up to June 1996 in PDF format, and at the end they have a section called "Parts" which lists all the parts used in that product, with a photo, discription and AppleService part number.
Just out of curiosity, what are these part numbers? I had always seen this page in the PDF versions of the manuals and thought of those as being the only part numbers, but from what you say it sounds like there is another set of numbers that is only included in the printed manuals? What are the numbers useful for anyway, as they were presumably only for AASPs to order parts from Apple when the machines were still supported by Apple for service/parts?
Well, if you score a bunch of otherwise unidentified individual spare parts, you can take them home and look the part numbers up to see if you can identify what they originally did and what machine they came from... [
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For this kind of detective work it would be nice to have a number lookup, but if you just have by model, some intelligent guessing often will get you to the right model, just by looking at some of the electronic part date codes within an assembly!
] ]'>For this kind of detective work it would be nice to have a number lookup, but if you just have by model, some intelligent guessing often will get you to the right model, just by looking at some of the electronic part date codes within an assembly!
