Atari 800XL Computer Field Service Manual
The 800XL Computer Field Service Manual is Atari, Inc.'s field service manual for the Atari 800XL, document FD100740 Rev. 01, February 1984, copyright 1984 Atari, Inc., Sunnyvale, California. The scan has 47 pages, including the covers and the fold-out schematic and silkscreen, and no text layer. A third-party manual derived from the same material is described at Atari 800XL Service Manual.
Contents
[edit | edit source]With the manual's own page numbers:
- Introduction (p. v)
- Section 1, Theory of operation (pp. 1-1 to 1-15): user interface and function keys; mechanical theory; system and functional block diagrams; pin assignments for the 6502C (fig. 1-3), ANTIC, GTIA, POKEY and PIA; OS ROM, BASIC ROM, DRAMs and MMU; RF modulator output and monitor output levels (p. 1-10); power supply, "+5 VDC output (+/- 2%)", 1.2 A maximum, 7-pin DIN (pp. 1-10 to 1-11); SIO, controller jack, cartridge and parallel bus interface pinouts (pp. 1-11 to 1-15)
- Section 2, Testing (pp. 2-1 to 2-3): the built-in self test, and the SuperSALT diagnostic cartridge FD100335, test assembly FA100332 and technical user's manual FD100770
- Section 3, Symptom checklist (pp. 3-1 to 3-3)
- Section 4, Assembly/disassembly (p. 4-1)
- Section 5, Schematics, silkscreens and parts list (pp. 5-1 to 5-6): silkscreen, the domestic/U.K. schematic on two scanned sheets (U.K. additions in dotted boxes), and the parts list with Atari part numbers
- Section 6, Service bulletins (p. 6-1): a description of the bulletin types only
What this document does not contain
[edit | edit source]- No component values inside the external power supply (CA024814-001) or the RF modulator (UM1652, CA061619); each is listed as a single part.
- No service bulletins are filed in this copy.
- The parts list prints U4 as the 16K × 8 OS ROM (C061598) and U5 as the 8K × 8 BASIC ROM Rev. B (C060302); the schematic draws U4 as the 8K BASIC ROM and U5 as the 16K OS ROM (27128).
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- Atari 800XL: cites Section 1, pp. 1-1 to 1-15, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4
- Atari 800XL Capacitor Replacement Guide: cites pp. 1-10, 1-11, p. 4-1, Section 5, pp. 5-3 to 5-6
- Atari 800XL General Maintenance: cites Section 1, pp. 1-10 and 1-11, Section 2, Section 3, Section 4
- Atari 800XL Service Manual
- Atari 800XL Troubleshooting Guide: cites Section 1, pp. 1-1 to 1-15, Section 2, pp. 2-1 to 2-3, Section 3
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