Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

On Apr 16, 8:38 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Ensor wrote:
> >
> > True they weren't shipped with the machine, but had to be bought seperately,
> > but they contain full schematics, operating system listings etc....

When were these manuals published? I ask, because I always
read that De Re Atari was the first publicly available programming
documentation around 1981/2. That would be a cool two years
after the machines were launched - and De Re Atari isn't even a
hardware manual.


> I've often said that the Apple II was the last personal computer
> for which all the documentation needed to completely understand
> its hardware and software weighed less than the machine.  ;-)
> (The Apple //e shipped into the 1990s.)

Well, a TTL data book already is half the rent ;-)

bye
Marcus