Applied Biosystems GeneAmp PCR System 9700, User Manual

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5-20 Creating and Editing Methods
Deleting a Method
The following procedure describes how to delete a method.
To delete a method:
Step Action
1 From the Utilities screen, press More and then press Delete . The Delete Method
screen appears.
Note If a PC Card is detected in the Card slot, you will get a choice of deleting a
method on the PC Card or the instrument.
The top line of the display continuously cycles between the following three lines:
Methods on Inst User Size Stored [or Last Used]
[or on PC card]
Used Mem: xxx methods xxx segments
Free Mem: xxx methods xxx segments
The following table describes these fields.
2 Select one of the methods displayed on the screen, or select another method as
follows:
3 Press
Delete
. The Delete Confirmation screen appears.
If the method is protected, enter a four-digit PIN and press Accept when the number
is correct.
Press Yes to delete the method
Delete Method
Methods on Inst
exp001 User
lisa
Size
15
Stored
01/01/00
F1 F3 F4 F5 F2
Yes Cancel
Field Description
Units for
the Size field Based on a calculation of the complexity and length of
a method relative to a maximum size of 1102 size
segments for the storage capacity of the instrument.
Used Mem Field Displays the number of segments used by all stored
methods.
Free Mem Field Displays the number of segments available to store
created methods.
If you want to... Then press...
view method parameters
(Refer to “Viewing Method Information” on page 4-8.)
the
View
key.
sort methods by different criteria (Refer to “Sorting Methods” on
page 4-5.) the
Sort
key.