Mac Restore CDs/Manuals

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Thu Nov 22 04:30:50 2001

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 08:44:24AM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Nov 21, 17:58, Chris wrote:
> > >I assume these are boardswapper guides and don't include useful
> > >information like schematics, right?
> >
> > Exactly.
> >
> > They are wonderful when you are trying to do things like open a Powerbook
> > to repair the latch spring or the mouse button (both things that are
> > prone to break on the 190/5300/3400/G3 case design), but totally useless
> > if you want to know how to repair the fried power supply on a 1400
> > (swapping yes, repairing no).
> >
> > But that jives with apple and the Mac... they have ALWAYS had a board
> > swap approach to repair. Even when the repair is something simple. So if
> > that is all they approve doing, why bother making public (or in the case
> > of these, pseudo public) manuals that cover anything more detailed.
>
> That's a pity. They weren't always like that; the Apple ][ service manuals
> included complete schematics and diagnostic software, and the service

Come on, Pete, you should know by now that Apple turned away from its
Apple ][ mentality the instant the Mac came out (if not before, like when
the Mac was being designed) and apparently hasn't looked back since.

(The people who ported NetBSD to the PowerPC machines find that Apple's
upgrades to Open Firmware sometimes prevent NetBSD from even booting.
I thought the whole point of OF was to allow multiple operating systems, but
obviously I was wrong.)

-- Derek
Received on Thu Nov 22 2001 - 04:30:50 GMT