Technical manual for Laser 3000/Dick Smith Cat available

[Roger Johnstone]

Well you asked for it so here it is. Well actually I think Giorgio might
have been the only one to ask for it, but everyone else is welcome to it
as well.

This is the Technical Reference Manual for the Dick Smith Cat a.k.a.
Video Technologies Laser 3000, the precursor to the famous Laser 128.
It's 274 pages long and a 12.6 MB download. For a clone it marked a real
turning point. It was made in 1984 and used a couple of custom gate
array chips. It was only mostly II+-compatible, but had many of the
specs of the IIe (80-column text, 64 KB of RAM, double-hires graphics).
In many ways it was more advanced (2 MHz CPU, better extended memory
management, sound chip, extended BASIC), but most of those features were
dropped with the Laser 128 in favour of IIe compatibility.

http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.
zip

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand -> http://roger.geek.nz

[schmidtd]

On Jul 14, 4:10 am, Roger Johnstone

<ro...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:
> Well you asked for it so here it is. Well actually I think Giorgio might
> have been the only one to ask for it, but everyone else is welcome to it
> as well.

You just don't see manuals like this any more. And I quote from the
Centronics Printer section, "How to hook them up:"

1) Turn off all power to the computer and printer

2) Attach the printer cable to the PRINTER socket on the rear panel of
the computer.

3) Attach the other end of the cable to the appropirate socket on the
printer.

4) Turn everything back on.

5) Go nuts.

[Mark McDougall]

schmidtd wrote:

> You just don't see manuals like this any more.

(snip)
> 5) Go nuts.

That's because these days, with windoze and plug'n'pray, you inevitably go
nuts anyway trying to work out why the @#$%^& won't work the first time you
install it! ;)

Regards,

--
| Mark McDougall | "Electrical Engineers do it
| <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug> | with less resistance!"

[Bill Garber]

"Roger Johnstone" <ro...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote in message
news:20080714201...@News.Individual.NET...

Link wrap, maybe this fix.

http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.zip

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com

[Bill Garber]

"Bill Garber" <will...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:pNydnc70ybRm5ObV...@comcast.com...

>
> > http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.
> > zip
>
> Link wrap, maybe this fix.
>
> http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.zip

Yep, it fixed it, for me anyway. Thanks for posting this, Roger.

[giorgio....@alice.it]

Il 14 Jul 2008 08:10:21 GMT, Roger Johnstone
<ro...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> ha scritto:

Hallo Roger !

Thanks for your big job.

This manual is very useful for my old Laser3000 !

Ciao

Giorgio

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