Re: II GS manuals

[Toby Reiter <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU>]

On 2 Dec 1996 rubywand@aol.com wrote:

> In article <32A0078E.437B@primeline.com>, John Richardson
> <jpr@primeline.com> writes:
> 
> >
> >I have a friend who just bought an Apple II GS at a state surplus
> >auction. It was sold as is and didn't come with any manuals. Could
> >somebody suggest a source for operating manuals or secondary help
> >manuals for the II GS?
> >
> >
> 
>      The two most important official manuals are The Apple IIGS Hardware
> Reference and The Apple IIGS Firmware Reference. The Toolbox References
> (three or four volumes) are nice to have, too. The Programmer's
> Introduction ... manual is marginal may be of interest; but, it is not all
> that good an introduction. Manuals such as Human Interface Guidelines ...
> and A Technical Introduction ... are, basically, worthless.  
> 
No, the best manual get is User's Guide to the IIgs. Even though it is 
somewhat rudimentary, has no programming or technical information, and is 
extremely outdated, in terms of knowing current hardware or software 
possibilities, if you truly want to *operate* a IIgs, i.e. How do I get 
it to turn on, how should I set it up, how do I use it (like the person 
stated in their post) then this is the way to go.  I am pretty sure that 
most IIgs users have NOTHING to learn from their old manual, and would 
probably be willing to sell it to you for a small fee.  You probably 
shouldn't get the manual from Sun Remarketing unless you want to pay more 
for it than you did for the computer.

Just my two turtledoves and partridge in a pear tree,
Toby Reiter