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MacWorks Manual

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MacWorks: The Macintosh Environment for the Lisa System is Apple Computer's 1984 manual for MacWorks, the software that lets an Apple Lisa run most Macintosh applications. The reorder number is Apple product A6L0280; the back cover carries part number 030-0418-A. The copyright page credits the program to Jeff Parrish of Apple. The scan has 144 PDF pages and a text layer.[1]

Apple says the manual "is almost identical to the Macintosh owner's manual, except for a few photographs and instructions". Its opening page lists how a Lisa running MacWorks differs from a Macintosh: the Lisa has a larger screen and more memory; everything looks slightly taller on the Lisa screen but prints the same; the Lisa has a front on-off button instead of a rear switch; its keyboard has a different numeric keypad and an Apple key in place of the Command key; the Macintosh clock has to be set the first time MacWorks is started and again after the Lisa has been unplugged; there is no four-voice sound; the Macintosh Guided Tour disk cannot be used; and the MacWorks disk cannot be copied and must not be inserted while the on-off button is lit.[1]

Contents

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  • About This Manual (5)
  • 1 Learning Macintosh (8): the mouse, selecting and choosing, windows, using an application, organising documents
  • 2 Finding Out More About Your Macintosh (44)
  • 3 Using Macintosh (50): editing text, managing documents and disks, printing, initialising disks, creating a startup disk, Font Mover, copying a disk
  • 4 Reference (86): keyboard, disks, windows, Clipboard, dialog boxes, desk accessories, shortcuts, the Finder
  • 5 Adding to Your Macintosh System (112)
  • Appendix A: Optional Character Set (120); Appendix B: If Something Goes Wrong (121); Glossary (126); Index (133)

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What it does not contain

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It is a user manual. It has no schematics, parts lists or hardware service procedures; Appendix B covers owner-level software and disk problems. Lisa hardware service information is in Apple Lisa Level 1 Technical Procedures Mar85 and Apple Service Technical Procedures Lisa/Macintosh XL.

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Download: MacWorks Manual.pdf (125 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Apple Computer, MacWorks: The Macintosh Environment for the Lisa System, 1984. Copyright page (PDF p. 2), "About This Manual" p. 5, contents (PDF p. 6), Appendix B p. 121, index from p. 133, back cover (PDF p. 142).
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