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Apple Lisa 2 Owners Guide 1983

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The Lisa 2 Owner's Guide is Apple Computer's owner's manual for the Lisa 2, copyright 1983, reorder product A6L0203. The scan has 348 pages. Pages are numbered within lettered sections (A5, E23 and so on), so a citation needs the section letter as well as the page.

It covers the whole system, software included: the LisaGuide tutorial, the Desktop Manager and the Calculator, as well as troubleshooting, maintenance and the hardware. The shorter 1984 edition is limited to the hardware.

Contents

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Section list from the guide's own contents page:

  • Preface
  • A. Getting Ready - LisaGuide: setting up, turning the Lisa on and off, and the LisaGuide tutorial
  • B. Desktop Manager Reference Guide: the desktop, disks and micro diskettes, and the Lisa 2 filing system
  • C. Troubleshooting: step-by-step diagnosis of problems
  • D. Maintenance: routine maintenance
  • E. Lisa 2 Hardware: system housing, disk drive module, video screen, mouse and keyboard, with the hardware specifications on p. E23
  • F. Calculator
  • G. Appendixes: 1, Setup Procedures; 2, On-Off Procedures; 3, Automatic Startup Tests, including Table 3, Kernel Test Failures; 4, Office System Error Messages
  • H. Index

The specifications give a 400 KB micro disk drive, 150 W power consumption and a 20 MHz dot rate. The 1984 edition gives the dot rate as 20.375 MHz.

What this document does not contain

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No service procedures, exploded views, parts list, schematics or component values. Its troubleshooting and maintenance sections are written for the owner. For repair use Apple Lisa Level 1 Technical Procedures Mar85 or Apple Service Technical Procedures Lisa/Macintosh XL.

Pages that cite this document

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Download: Apple Lisa 2 Owners Guide 1983.pdf