Subject: Re: Mac Hardware Notes
To: Randy Case <randy_case@nkn.net>
From: Brad Salai <bsalai@servtech.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/13/1996 05:15:10
> 
> While digging around in my archives the other day, I found my old Macintosh
> developer notes.
> 
> One of them was "The Macintosh Hardware" which was listed as "Second Draft"
> (and dated 13 Feb 85). A total of 37 pages, but much more detail than
> the "Inside Machintosh" that exists today. Drawback - only covers the
> Mac 128K and 512K.
> 
> The sections that may be of interest to the NetBSD/Mac people (other than
> the entire developer chapter) are the Sound Generator, the Real-Time Clock,
> and the Disk Interface. Also included are the Video, the SCC, Mouse, Keyboard,
> the VIA, and what happens at system startup. Includes hardware diagrams.
> 
> From page 3 ("About this Chapter")
> 
>     "This chapter provides a basic description of the hardware of the
>      Macintosh 128K and 512K computers. It gives you information that
>      you'll need to connect other devices to the Macintosh and to write
>      device drivers or other low-level programs. ..."
> 
> If anyone thinks that this will be useful, I'll try to scan and OCR it.

Not to sound like anyones mother, but copyright does apply to written things too, not just software. In fact, there were no computers when copyright laws were first enacted, honest ;-).

Brad