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 ;-)