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Apple Color RGB Monitor Documentation

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Documentation for the AppleColor RGB Monitor (A2M6014): Apple's Technical Procedures, the owner's guide, the 1989 data sheet and a schematic. All four are hosted here and embedded below.

Technical Procedures

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AppleColor RGB Monitor Technical Procedures is the monitor's section of Apple Service Technical Procedures: Apple II Family, Volume Two, part number 072-0229, November 1991 build. The hosted file is 71 pages: the volume's two-page table of contents and the whole section, with pages dated between October 1986 and May 1991.

Contents

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  • Section 1, Basics (pp. 1.2-1.3): product description, RGB signal, location of controls and their symbols
  • Section 2, Take-Apart (pp. 2.2-2.26): rear cover, discharging the CRT, anode cap, switch panel controls, CRT video board, main logic (power supply) board, AC cord, CRT, LED assembly, fuse F901
  • Section 3, Adjustments (pp. 3.1-3.16): safety, set-up, vertical, horizontal, linearity, focus and colour adjustments
  • Section 4, Troubleshooting (pp. 4.1-4.9): Adjustments Check with the Apple IIGS Diagnostic diskette, troubleshooting table
  • Section 5, Illustrated Parts List (pp. 5.1-5.11): bezel, CRT, power supply and video boards, rear cover and controls, cables and AC cord

What this document does not contain

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No schematic, component values, supply voltages or anode voltage. Apple forbids yoke adjustment on this monitor.

Download: AppleColor RGB Monitor Technical Procedures.pdf

Owner's guide

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AppleColor RGB Monitor Owner's Guide for the Apple IIGS, copyright 1986, back cover part number 030-3106-B, printed in Japan. The hosted scan is 24 pages. Archive.org also holds two other scans of the guide (items AppleColor_RGB_Monitor_Owners_Guide and AppleColor_RGB_Monitor_Owners_Guide_Rev_B); they are not hosted here.

What this document does not contain

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No service information.

Download: AppleColor RGB Monitor Owner's Guide 030-3106-B.pdf

Data sheet

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AppleColor RGB Monitor, Apple data sheet, April 1989, A9F0005/A, two pages: overview, features, system requirements, technical specifications and the order number A2M6014.

Download: AppleColor RGB Monitor Data Sheet 1989.pdf

Schematic

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A three-sheet schematic diagram of the A2M6014, scanned at 300 dpi on A4: each sheet is one section of a single large drawing. It shows the input and video circuits, vertical and horizontal deflection, the power supply and the CRT board, with component values. The drawing carries no Apple drawing number. It was posted to archive.org with the owner's guide and a sync timing chart.

What this document does not contain

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No parts list or board layout; only one mains version is drawn.

Download: AppleColor RGB Monitor A2M6014 Schematic.pdf

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