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Macintosh System Software Users Guide 1988

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The Macintosh System Software User's Guide, Version 6.0 is Apple's 1988 user manual for System 6.0, the system software shipped with the Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE and Macintosh II at the time (the tutorial's "Getting ready" section covers those three machines). Apple part number 030-3281-A (back cover). The scan has 295 PDF pages; the book has xi front pages, 268 numbered pages of text and an index starting on p. 269. An addendum sheet, 031-0361-A, scanned before the title page, corrects the version numbers printed in the guide: System 6.0 (not 4.4) and MultiFinder 6.0 (not 1.1).

Contents

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From the book's contents pages:

  1. Tutorial: Learning Macintosh Basics (p. 1)
  2. Basic Macintosh Techniques (p. 51)
  3. Working With the Finder Desktop (p. 77)
  4. Finder Menu Commands (p. 113)
  5. Desk Accessories (p. 123): Alarm Clock, Calculator, Chooser, Control Panel (General, Color, Keyboard, Monitors and others)
  6. Keyboards (p. 155)
  7. 3.5-Inch Disks (p. 171): 400K and 800K formats, initialising, ejecting, copying, locking
  8. Hard Disks (p. 193): initialising a SCSI hard disk with Apple HD SC Setup, and its Update, Partition, Test and Drive functions
  9. Startup Disks (p. 203): what a System Folder contains, the Installer (System Tools and Printing Tools), the scanning order for startup disks (p. 215), switching startup disks, reclaiming space on an 800K startup disk
  10. MultiFinder (p. 219): system requirements, turning it on and off, Background Printing and PrintMonitor, the Finder memory graph and fragmented memory, the Set Startup command
  • Appendix A: A History of Macintosh System Software (p. 247), with sections for the 512K, 512K enhanced, Plus, and SE and II
  • Appendix B: Troubleshooting (p. 258): general problems (p. 259) and problems with MultiFinder (p. 266)
  • Index (p. 269)

What this manual does not contain

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It is a user guide. It has no schematics, voltages, pinouts or service procedures. Its troubleshooting appendix covers software and disk problems at user level. For hardware, see Apple's Service Source manuals.

The chapters most useful to a restorer are Startup Disks, for the order in which the machine looks for a startup disk, and Hard Disks, for Apple HD SC Setup.

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