Technical Reference Manual for //e Platinum

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Technical Reference Manual for //e Platinum

I've been hunting around for a while now and have only found the IIe technical reference manual First printing (1985) on every site where I've come across it so far.  While it covers the majority of the IIe Enhanced information of the Platinum, I see it does not talk about the CF ROM (which I'm assuming is the single-chip combination of the older CD/EF ROMs).  As I'm just starting out, that's the only glaring difference I've noticed while poking around, but I assume there are probably other differences I have not learned about yet.

 

Is there an Edition of the Technical Reference Manual available (PDF is fine) that has the Platinum-specific details (eg, a second printing or later edition)?

 

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Not that I know of.  Or at

Not that I know of.  Or at least I haven't come across one.

The IIe Platinum was probably the last Apple II model released and this came at a time when Apple was sanitizing all of its user manuals.

Comparing the Super Serial Card Manual from 1982 to 1990 is a case in point.  The later edition has no source code, or diagrams.

 

 

The differences are small but fairly significant in terms of wiring - you've identified the CD-EF to CF ROM, but there is also the fact that both the motherboard and 80 column / memory expansion card each use a pair of 4464 chips rather than an octet of 4164 chips.  There may be other subtle differences, but functionally the two machines are pretty much the same as far as I can tell, and I own both.

 

 

 

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Yes it is available. With

Yes it is available. With monitor listings and schematics.

IIRC the Platinum //e ROMs are the same as the Enhanced //e.

 

https://archive.org/search.php?query=IIE+technical+reference&sin=

https://archive.org/details/Apple_IIe_Technical_Reference_Manual

https://archive.org/details/apple-iie-technical-reference-manual-1987-edition

 

 

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This is the one
Keatah wrote:

https://archive.org/details/apple-iie-technical-reference-manual-1987-edition

 

That's the one I was looking for.  

Thanks! 

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