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PARALLEL PRINTER INTERFACE CARD
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

The card manual for connecting a printer to the Apple II. Apple has advanced peripheral expansion cards so that Apple II can appeal to other than the hobbyist group. This card was designed for printers with a 7/8 bit parallel port which was common for personal computers at the time. According to the manual and catalog, it can connect with printers such as Axiom EX 800, Centronics, Printoronix, SWTP PR 40. It has a jumper block on the base board and is designed to correspond to the pin assignment of various connectors according to the setting of the jumper, and the manual has detailed description of the pin assignment of each printer and the corresponding jumper method.
The source list of FIRMWARE at the end of the book is noted “11/1/77 Woz”, which shows that this card was handled before Disk II designed by Woz using seven days of Christmas holidays in 1977. (Refer to Cards - 1)

Published in January 1978. 32 pages, A5 version. #A2L0004X REV.A (030-0005-01) # A2L0004X REV.A (030-0005-01)


COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE CARD
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

Manual for Apple II Communications Interface Card (A2B0003X). It is compliant with EIA's RS232 standard and can switch between half-duplex mode and full-duplex mode with software switching at 110 baud or 300 baud. In the manual, the article of Jef Raskin of Dr. Dobbs Journal is quoted as it is. Using this card, two Apple IIs were able to connect, transfer data, connect the acoustic coupler and exchange data using a telephone line. The attachment in the manual is accompanied by a list of Circuit Schematic and PROM FIRMWARE, and the PROM FIRMWARE programmer was in charge of Dr. W. B. SANDER known as the developer of Apple III. In 1977, it is said that Waz designed and manufactured a digital telephone card with John Draper named “Captain Crunch” who has an independent office and, and this card is thought to have followed the design.

Published May 1978. 28 28 pages, A5 version. #A2L0007X Rev.A # A2L0007X Rev.A

SERIAL INTERFACE CARD
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

RS232 compliant serial interface card manual. It can be set from 75 baud to 19,200 baud with a dip switch. Installation method, transmission / reception method, dip switch, timing, etc. are described. At the end of the book are a circuit diagram and a source list of FIRMWARE. Diagrams are the ones in the company use as they are, and they can read up to the signature of the approver. Since the manual number is relatively small, it is considered as the original genuine expansion card as Apple II.

Published in March 1979. 40 40 pages, A5 version. #A2L0008(030-0012) # A2L0008 (030-0012)

DISK II FLOPPY DISK SUBSYSTEM
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

Disk II manual as of September 1978. When I open the cover, I can see that this manual is temporary, stamped with “preliminary” with a large red rubber stamp.
In the several weeks during Christmas holidays in 1977, Woz developed Disk II with the help of Randy Wigginton and debuted at Consumer Electric Show in Las Vegas in January 1978, after then, he designed the main board and rewrote the routine, the rest of the OS was made responsible for Shavers & Microsystems Inc., and Disk II sales were started around June, 1978.
In this manual, the first half is the Disk II Installation Manual, the second half is explained a DOS summary, and from the time of the manual issue date, it is considered to be the earliest description about the Disk II operating system.

Published in September 1978. 38 38 pages, A5 edition. 030-0011-00 030-0011-00

 


PROGRAMMER'S AID#1
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

In the original system of Apple II released in 1977, among the 12 KB ROM area (2 KB × 6, F 8, F 0, E 8, E 0, D 8, D 0 socket), F8 used 2 KB monitor, the three socket of the F 0, E 8, E 0, used an integer Basic of 6 KB, and two sockets of D 8, D 0 were not used.
Programmer's Aid # 1 is a 2 Kbyte mask ROM containing 7 utility programs for integer Basic programmers made by Woz completed from 1977 to 1978. Of the two remaining sockets, it is designed to be mounted in the D 0 slot. The main function consists of replacing and connecting the Integer Basic number, checking the loading tape data, RAM test, high resolution graphics subroutine, and so on.
A set of this manual and mask ROM, it was sold in the middle of 1978. Also, the Integer Basic Firmware Card is equipped with this ROM as standard. The manual explains how to install the ROM and commentary on each program carefully. Also, the Appendix at the end of the book has a Source code.

Published in 1978, 96 pages, A5 version. #A2L0011(030-0026) # A2L0011 (030-0026)


AUTOSTART ROM
INSTALLATION AND OPERATING MANUAL

The auto start ROM is a monitor ROM that Apple has installed in the Apple II Plus for "Turnkey Computer System". Of the six ROM sockets of Apple II, install it in the F8 socket used by the monitor ROM and use it.
In the original machine, it enters the monitor mode with power ON (cold start). On the other hand, in the auto start ROM, it was designed to load the program from the Disk by automatically searching the Disk II controller with resetting at the same time as the power is turned on. Therefore, users are unaware of the mode of Apple II and can use the program in combination with Disk II without entering a command. On the other hand, the debugging function of the machine language program such as the mini assembler and the single step trace which was in the original is omitted. Even in the original system, it can be used by replacing the ROM in the F8 slot, and it was released as a standalone after the release of Apple II Plus in June 1979. It seems that there were many users who bought this ROM in combination with Disk II.
In this manual, in addition to the ROM installation method, instructions for use, the full source code of the monitor is introduced at the end of the manual.

Published in 1979, 61 pages, A5 version. #A2L0022 (030-0038-00) # A2L0022 (030-0038-00)


DISK OPERATING SYSTEM INSTRUCTION AND REFERENCE MANUAL
(DOS3.2 VERSION)
APPLE DISK II 解説

The release dates of the DOS version are as follows.

   DOS3 

1978/6/29

   DOS3.1

1978/7/20

   DOS3.2

1979/2/16

   DOS3.2.1

1979/7/31

   DOS3.3

1980/8/25

This is a manual of DOS 3.2 version. It was attached to Disk II.

The right is a Japanese translated version of the above manual by ESD Laboratory. It has been carefully translated to reference materials. According to Yutaka Saito's book "Under the tree of apples" (published by ASCII), ESD has grown rapidly due to the import of Apple II, borrowing a 3 floor building near Yushima Aria in Tokyo in the middle of 1978, employees 50. One floor among the building was opened as a showroom (famous shop named as “Computer Love Hongo”). The excitement of the time in the personal computer generation period is transmitted.

English version: published in February 1979 (presumed without manual description), 178 pages, A5 version. #A2L0012(030-0011-01) # A2L0012 (030-0011-01).


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