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Page 1: ...FRANKLIN COMPUTER t 9 FRANKLIN ACE fi User Reference Manual FRANKLIN COMPUTER CORPORATION Prepared by the Documentation Department Franklin Computer Corporation...

Page 2: ...n constitutes a trademark of Franklin Computer Corporation Franklin ACE is a trademark of Franklin Computer Corporation The following registered trademarks belonging to the indicated parties are refer...

Page 3: ...er About Memory Si c Counts 1 14 A Good Firne To Be Interested In A Personal Computer 1 16 Compatibility The Good The Bad And The Ugly 1 18 Be Choosy About The Company You Keep 1 20 The Dealer 1 21 Tr...

Page 4: ...ke It Worse 2 10 VI Promises Take Each With A Grain Of Salt 2 11 VII Be Patient It s Not A Perfect World 2 13 A good title for this section might be The Territorial Imperatives Of The Trumpeter Swan 3...

Page 5: ...1T Initializing A Diskette For Use 4 21 A Few Generalizations About File Names 4 25 How To Use FUD 4 26 Diskette Management Commands 4 28 Selection F Format A Diskette 4 28 Selection M Make A Master D...

Page 6: ...FRANKLIN COMPUTER How To Use Boot13 4 46 A Synopsis Of The Programs On The DOS Diskette 4 48 APPENDICES 5 1 Glossary 6 1 Index 7 DOS And FUD Command Formats 8 1...

Page 7: ...tle bit wary that s only natural Until recently doing anything with computers required special skills even special languages and those who knew what it was all about weren t very interested in initiat...

Page 8: ...y You ll find advice about computer products what they re for how they work what their quirks arc and so forth In a field that s growing and changing as fast as computer science you ll need this sort...

Page 9: ...t understand or that it will suddenly start to spit out all kinds of symbols and nonsense Computer phobia is the fear of feeling incompetent and helpless in the face of high technology With personal c...

Page 10: ...ntent or spirit of a question The fact is you do have to develop something of a rapport with the way the computer understands what you tell it That comes with a little practice If you ever find yourse...

Page 11: ...impossible but it isn t Don t worry about making mistakes Using a personal computer is a hands on learn by doing process that is somewhat less than perfectly straightforward As long as you re analyti...

Page 12: ...Wy M ma JT The World Can Live Without Bits and Bytes You won t find out what bits and bytes are here If you really want to know look in a dictionary of computer terms That may sound a little brusque b...

Page 13: ...happens but those aren t particularly relevant at this point Don t let them confuse you And more importantly don t be intimidated if you don t understand what a computer person tells you Everything t...

Page 14: ...me will even continue talking after you ve walked away Listen to them politely but escape as quickly as possible They can make you hopelessly even terminally confused Somewhere down the line through r...

Page 15: ...ammer s nightmare That s fine because you don t want to be a programmer Not yet at least Instead of trying to write a program as one of the first things you do spare yourself the headaches and use wha...

Page 16: ...home from work depending on whether you re coming or going and read the financial pages of six newspapers from around the country You might write a letter or a report and be reluctant to let anyone re...

Page 17: ...you buy Using the packing box as a planter for your petunias shouldn t be one of the two uses for your new acquisition But even if it is you re sure to find more Virtually everything you can do with...

Page 18: ...computer can take much of the mechanical drudgery out of any task but it can t think or organize all by itself Not yet anyway Besides what it can t do there are certain things you wouldn t want it to...

Page 19: ...her or not to computerize Personal computers also have certain physical and functional limitations The ACE for example will choke very quickly if you try to feed it the payroll information for a Fortu...

Page 20: ...es file cabinets to hold all the information And because a personal computer s memory size is also limited you could only do a few calculations at a time It s like using a shovel where you need a bull...

Page 21: ...then a third month You ll have to put the three sections together yourself With larger memory capacity the computer could probably do the whole job for you Speed is another factor The machine can pull...

Page 22: ...able calculators Suddenly it was possible for the average person to carry an instrument that would do simple arithmetic chart bioYhythms and provide the calculations needed to navigate by stars Some p...

Page 23: ...lready burned out for that evening It s all different now The machines come assembled and for the most part with adequate instructions They re relatively inexpensive reliable easy to use and remarkabl...

Page 24: ...e manufacturer means that the program or device was designed to be 100 compatible Did the manufacturer succeed in his design Well almost everything works Does the manufacturer know of anything that do...

Page 25: ...d then if they use a few of the programs specifically designed for the APPLE Take solace in the fact that the advantages provided by the ACE s unique design more than make up for any problem you might...

Page 26: ...es only a few months longer than the youngest relative longevity isn t necessarily a reliable indicator of quality Probably the best way to judge a company is to determine whether you the customer are...

Page 27: ...t of help making initial and future purchases so find a dealer that you feel comfortable with and can trust If when you walk into the store the salespeople seem more interested in the computers than t...

Page 28: ...at are you going to do if the computer you ordered comes disassembled all the parts in plastic bags the electronic components stuck in chunks of styrofoam You have no dealer to rely on for help Assumi...

Page 29: ...information and programs as well as helping one another solve problems that arise when using new technologies Often the clubs have a general meeting once a month with a speaker or special presentation...

Page 30: ...sor you wouldn t have a computer ACTUAt SIZE Everything else in the case is there to help the microprocessor do its job You have the power supply to convert and regulate the electrical current going t...

Page 31: ...on the screen Also everything that the computer wants to tell you the results of your calcula tions the contents of a diskette the score of the Dodgers game is displayed on the screen A monitor or TV...

Page 32: ...rer and away you go Printers For Paper Copies Of What You Do printer is simply a typewriter without keys After all why would you need another set of keys when you ve already got a perfectly good one o...

Page 33: ...or easy access to all the required information Consider buying a printer But which one There are hundreds available The first thing to look for is the printer s compatibility with the programs you wan...

Page 34: ...puter to plug in the other end The printer interface card solves this problem It s nothing more than a plastic board about the size of a 3 x 5 index card Although you should follow the directions when...

Page 35: ...itch goes off it forgets everything Poof If you want to retain what you ve typed in you ve got to transfer it out of the computer s memory and store it onto floppy diskettes your files Memory you see...

Page 36: ...rue with diskettes lust as there s a limit to the number of file folders you can stuff into a file drawer there is also a limit to how many files you can store on a single diskette Using a computer is...

Page 37: ...to backup the data on the Winchester It s also impossible to remove a Winchester disk from the drive itself so whatever happens to the drive also happens to your data Backup becomes twice as important...

Page 38: ...is called paging Scrolling is similar except that you move through your document one line at a time instead of one page at a time For example if what you see on the screen represents the 1 0th throug...

Page 39: ...welcome surprise Unfortunately you d never be able to read the display if you tried to cram 80 characters on one line of a TV screen Because the monitor can display a clearer and sharper picture than...

Page 40: ...are busy doing things even more differently This creates some finger pointing and more importantly many incompatibilities To avoid such problems get your dealer s advice and try the card These arc the...

Page 41: ...ou can hook your computer up to your standard telephone dial the number of your local computer center and start sending and receiving information This is an amazingly powerful setup Just by calling yo...

Page 42: ...unless your dealer has sold you a telephone interface card you can t Just like the printer the telephone needs an interface card Computer people being the way they are though the telephone interface c...

Page 43: ...ses what s called an acoustic connection to the phone Instead of directly wiring the modem card into the phone line you establish the connection by letting the modem use your telephone handset to talk...

Page 44: ...they find a way to get it Well a certain group of malcontents found a way to get what they wanted and every owner of an ACE compatible computer is better off because of it Think of computers as countr...

Page 45: ...e language Programs written for one CP M system usually work on any other CP M system However as you d probably expect programs written for DOS will not work on a CP M system and vice versa This is to...

Page 46: ...explain what it is that they have even after they get them Nobody can tell you exactly what programs are although everyone seems to be buying them selling them writing them swearing at them or piratin...

Page 47: ...to use them The last point is probably the most important and yet it s also the one that causes the most profound suspicions and rankest uneasiness People generally like to see a definition to know w...

Page 48: ...do with your computer buy some programs and go for it Be warned however Programs are expensive and they vary greatly in quality Before you buy one make sure it has some practical application to justi...

Page 49: ...oing to try to convince you that his program will make a jug of cider jump off the table and turn ducks eggs into solid gold Look this man straight in the eye and ask him for names of people who are s...

Page 50: ...ve buttons on the sides of paddles Often they make the machine go beep A joystick provides the same kinds of directional control except that instead of two dials you have one stick on one little unit...

Page 51: ...t much good without one Did you get some floppy diskettes You should have a box to get yourself started How about a printer If you get one make sure you have the cable for it And don t forget paper H...

Page 52: ...y now and again Everyone does If you stay loose follow directions and experiment a little you ll soon resolve any difficulties Remember that you can count on the dealer the club and the company for he...

Page 53: ...f not the least of which is the noxious horror of silicon on fire I Electrical Power Don t Change A Buib With The Power On The ACE is an electrical device so never tinker with anything inside it when...

Page 54: ...ord is disconnected Always Force yourself Someday you re going to forget Not even computerdom is free from sin When you do immediately turn off the power Look for obvious signs of damage such as smoke...

Page 55: ...ent or your time Here are a few rules to follow so that you won t mangle your diskettes 1 Let nothing touch any of the exposed areas on the diskette 2 Don t bend fold staple or otherwise mutilate your...

Page 56: ...a dangerous little button called a reset switch On older models the ACE 100 line this button is at the upper right hand corner of the keyboard On the newer ACEs the ACE 1000 line RESET is hidden from...

Page 57: ...Even if leaving RESET you avoid this particular problem by alone when the disk drive s light is onJ RESET l ean still cause trouble For example if you ve typed information into your ACE but you haven...

Page 58: ...out Whenever your disk drive s red light is on a hard ceramic surface is rubbing on the diskette as it turns in the drive Sooner or later ceramic prevails over plastic and the diskette wears thin in s...

Page 59: ...up the ghost The first greatest joy is when the backup works In numbers there is safety and reason to act blase Backup Backup Backup To fail to do so is folly A blank diskette and the time it takes to...

Page 60: ...y you could start to hand out copies of the program like candy to everyone you meet thereby depriving the manufacturers of deserved revenues Many companies ask you to sign a licensing agreement that s...

Page 61: ...you can launch a strong counterattack What you need is a weapon a program called a nibble copier It s a cute name but its purpose in life is noble It s designed to copy uncopiablc programs The proble...

Page 62: ...antage is that you also have easy access to all the other internal parts of the machine that you really should leave alone unless you know exactly what you re doing Be strong Resist the temptation to...

Page 63: ...find But purported capabilities are often different from what the program or peripheral device will actually do You ve got to try before you buy Some people will try to sell you anything whether it w...

Page 64: ...would take half a city warehouse district just to store them Fortunately there are evaluation methods other than a trial run at your dealer s showroom Search out independent reviews of the product pub...

Page 65: ...roblem only to find that the machine works fine The repairperson then looks quizzically at the customer who sputters I am not crazy It really didn t work before This happens so often in the personal c...

Page 66: ...n unless they occur consistently with certain programs or peripherals Persevere Try whatever is giving you the problem several times If it doesn t go away by itself read the manual and try again Fiddl...

Page 67: ...f place in a computer manual but there s a reason for the incongruity Unless you were fascinated by birds you probably wouldn t turn to this section of the manual first If it had been entitled Tjet s...

Page 68: ...picture of personal computerdom If you ve turned here out of curiosity turn back Establish your own territorial imperatives by starting at the beginning and getting a feel for the terrain It s Out Of...

Page 69: ...pop off and snap back on To get it off stand in front of the unit facing the keyboard Reach back and grasp the corners of the back of the lid one corner in each hand With your thumbs push back the two...

Page 70: ...es The Video Cable I he video cable is the skinnier of the two round cables shipped with the ACE the one with a little male jack on each end Find the one inch square opening in the back right hand sid...

Page 71: ...components Toward the back right up against the wall you ll see eight black connectors These are called slots You ll see numbers printed in large white numerals on the main board behind the slots Thes...

Page 72: ...hich is drive 2 after you make the connection The computer the card and the drive could care less about how you decide to number them as long as you make sure they re connected properly and remember w...

Page 73: ...he lid that s all there is to it Your disk drives are now installed The Power Cord A s soon as you make sure the ON OFF switch is in the OFF position you can plug in the AC power cord It s the six foo...

Page 74: ...It Should Do Let s try the ACE without any diskettes first just to see if it s working properly Turn the unit on using the ON OFF switch on the back Here s what should happen 1 The red light at the t...

Page 75: ...Working Ihis checklist may help you find the problem 1 Is the light in the upper right corner of the keyboard on If it s not then the machine isn t getting power Check the power cord connection both t...

Page 76: ...connector To adjust video brightness turn this disk using a small screwdriver preferably a plastic one Be careful not to let your screwdriver touch anything else on the electronics board because you c...

Page 77: ...n order You re going to spend a lot of time pounding away at it so you should know what it can do Lower Case and Alpha Lock In most ways the ACE keyboard works exactly like a standard typewriter If yo...

Page 78: ...ase is a distinct advantage there are times that it causes some problems Certain programs don t handle lower case characters properly The reason for this program weakness is that they were written for...

Page 79: ...d Some word processing programs use this pad to let you place characters wherever vou want them on the screen When you re using the editing pad pressing the 2 key positions the next character you type...

Page 80: ...l perform a break function in many programs This usually means that the program aborts whatever i t s doing Whenever a program requires that you can hit you type CTRL C BREAK instead I he PAUSE key no...

Page 81: ...ten for the Apple will refer to those APPLE keys at times To type them on the ACE type the corresponding key from the ACE column of the chart Unfortunately if the program requires you to type CTRL SHI...

Page 82: ...were to look at a table of contents of the diskette they wouldn t even be listed They constitute an operating system known as DOS 3 3 a disk operating system Besides providing you and the computer wi...

Page 83: ...in but don t force it after it stops 4 Push the disk drive door down until it snaps shut Now flip the power switch in the back of the ACE to turn it on You ll see everything you saw when there was no...

Page 84: ...ext character will appear What just happened is called a disk boot an absolutely essential and happily automatic process When you see the you know that the boot is complete In the early days of person...

Page 85: ...down at the computer and try each operation as it s described You can learn by reading and doing but not by reading alone Familiarizing yourself with the way these programs work is a hands on process...

Page 86: ...f harm s way How To Use The Copy Program lo get the COPY program from the DOS diskette into the ACE you ve got to boot the diskette as described earlier When the prompt and cursor appear DOS is in the...

Page 87: ...is located As long as it s there all you have to do is press I RETURN This is known as the default value the response you give when you don t specify something other than what the machine expects COP...

Page 88: ...ne diskette to another poses a small problem if you have only one disk drive You can t just read data from a diskette in one drive and write it onto a diskette iv another drive With a single drive sys...

Page 89: ...he same but the procedures you must follow are a bit different so follow the steps as they appear on the screen If you re using a two drive system there should be no discrepancies between what you rea...

Page 90: ...known as reseating Try to make a copy again If reseating the diskettes doesn t eliminate the problem you may have a bad diskette Replace it with a new one if it s the destination diskette If it s the...

Page 91: ...lly called write protect labels and cover the rectangular notch that s on the side of the diskette A small piece of cellophane tape does the job just as well but you should have no trouble finding lab...

Page 92: ...kettes and retrievable The applications programs you use will tell you how to store your programs and data on diskettes so that you can turn off the machine without worrying about losing the program o...

Page 93: ...res used to make DOS work for you First of all the DOS program has to be in the computer before you can give it commands Unfortunately because it s such an automatic invisible program it s not always...

Page 94: ...ping the O key at the same time called I CTRL x Then you can type the same command again or try a new one You re about ready to try the DOS commands so make sure that you re using a backup copy of the...

Page 95: ...to be using The number changes as Franklin produces new versions Generally speaking data and programs are stored on diskettes in files with program names or titles used synonymously with the names of...

Page 96: ...ands work with only certain categories of programs other commands on other categories A indicates that the file is a program written in Floating Point BASIC File type I is a program written in INTEGER...

Page 97: ...ou can continue looking at each succeeding group of eighteen until you ve seen the names of all the files on the diskette If DOS is waiting for you to hit the space bar for the next group of files you...

Page 98: ...e the prompt character at the bottom of the screen HELLO has finished running and you can continue Or if you want to take a break you can shut off the machine Don t worry about hurting anything by try...

Page 99: ...ted from modification You are permitted to read a locked file though For example you can run a program in a file that s locked as you did with H ELLO or copy the file to another diskette but if you tr...

Page 100: ...er Just look at it as computer calisthenics UNLOCK Removing The Protection From A File If you want to change a locked file you have to unlock it first Type UNLOCK and the name of the file on the same...

Page 101: ...i e type CATALOG j RETURN to check this HELLO should still be named HELLO Unlock HELLO as explained earlier under the UNLOCK command and then try the RENAME command again This time it should work Do a...

Page 102: ...uld use the DELETE command with one of the file names from the diskette in drive 2 You d have to put a comma after the file name and D2 after the comma but that s all that would be dissimilar from wha...

Page 103: ...CE or ACE compatible machine that has exactly the same memory size as yours But if you intend to use the diskette on another machine with a different memory capacity you ll have to do one more thing t...

Page 104: ...you can save the time and typing you d have to spend calling upon the program and getting it to run The DOS diskette for example was initialized with the HELLO program so that every time you boot it t...

Page 105: ...you ll see the usual version message with one modification that isn t particularly relevant for a storage diskette If you now type CATALOG RETURN you ll find the m t I _ __1 j 1 T 4111 j 1 ii yuu now...

Page 106: ...from other things such as disk drive numbers The commas you see in the examples must appear in the command exactly as they re shown When D1 and 02 appear they must be typed exactly as they re shown t...

Page 107: ...t s what your diskettes would be like without FUD Although the step by step cookbook approach was useful for familiarizing you with the ACE and DOS it does get a bit tiresome You won t be given such s...

Page 108: ...C opy files D elete files L ock files U nlock files V erify files M ake MASTER diskette F ormat diskette Q uit Please press letter for function desired This is the main menu the list of options open t...

Page 109: ...nd which formats diskettes and the Mcommand which transforms formatted or initialized diskettes into masters Each of these commands has an impact on the entire diskette Selection F Format A Diskette A...

Page 110: ...that When you select F from the main menu the screen displays FORMAT What volume number should I put on the diskette press RETURN for normal 254 The volume number is an identification number placed o...

Page 111: ...there s nothing important on the diskette When you re sure press 1 RETURN The formatting operation takes about a minute You see this message on the screen below the previous message Formatting disket...

Page 112: ...y putting it into the drive and pressing RETURN If you didn t get a write protect error then you may have gotten this message Sorry but I had an I O error Try reseating the diskette Press RETURN to tr...

Page 113: ...u have at school at the office or at Aunt Minerva s if you want to use your programs and files different places as many people do With a master DOS on the diskette you ll be able to use it on ACE comp...

Page 114: ...and press RETURN to try again This probably means that you don t have the DOS diskette in the same disk drive as the one you specified Put the DOS diskette into drive number x look at the message on t...

Page 115: ...u haven t inserted the diskette yet don t worry FUD won t start to do anything at this point Go ahead and hit the RETURN key or a l 2l for the destination disk drive The next message reads Please inse...

Page 116: ...ain menu If for some reason the machine can t write DOS onto the diskette an error message appears If the destination diskette is write protected the little notch on the side of the diskette covered t...

Page 117: ...e error was caused by something like an unformatted diskette you ll have to stop and correct the problem before you can put a master DOS onto that diskette Pressing BREAK will return you to FUD s main...

Page 118: ...a group of files With carefully chosen ambiguous file names more than one file can meet the specifications of the name you ve created Now for the conventions A file name is ambiguous if it has either...

Page 119: ...the way they can get you into trouble It s possible to create an ambiguous file name that embraces file names you didn t intend to include in the operation of the command For example by using an over...

Page 120: ...o specify the new drive number along with the file name You specify a drive number by typing either D1 or D2 after the file name to specify either drive 1 or drive 2 Selection S Show The Files On Disk...

Page 121: ...a file name or an ambiguous file name instead Here come the ifs If you type a file name FUD will display only that file in the catalog display If you type an ambiguous file name FUD will display all f...

Page 122: ...pe DJ and a new display appears giving you your options You answer it the same way as you do when you want to display files This time however you re specifying the files to be deleted The D command wi...

Page 123: ...accidentally delete one of them To lock them you put the DOS diskette in drive 1 and boot up Type 8RUN FUD RETURN Next use the Scommand specifying drive 2 where you have your files on diskette Then c...

Page 124: ...py If you enter a single file name only that file is copied If you specify an ambiguous file name all files that match the ambiguous description are copied You re then asked which drive you want to co...

Page 125: ...he name of a file being copied already exists on the destination diskette the message already exists replace appears If you answer n no copy takes place But if you answer V the file is deleted from th...

Page 126: ...this message ever appear specify a volume identification number of 0 oops file Is locked Ihis appears when you try to delete a file that s locked Unlock it and try again oops no more room on diskette...

Page 127: ...esn t work the diskette may be bad Reseat it and try again Persist if the diskette holds important programs or data You may reseat the diskette a dozen times and find that it works on the thirteenth t...

Page 128: ...diskette may be in drive 2 In a moment you should see the digit in the upper left corner of the screen If all s well it counts up to 9 and then disappears Your 13 sector diskette is then booting If th...

Page 129: ...e name does not show up in the table of contents of the diskette when you use the CATALOG command DOS 3 3 manages and controls the operation of the disk drives for all other programs You can t use you...

Page 130: ...re are slight differences in capabilities between it and FPBASIC This is one of the programs that is automatically read into the machine when you boot the DOS diskette You ll never have to explicitly...

Page 131: ...16 sector diskette BOOT13 solves this problem Typically the only time you use BOOT13 is when you buy a program that is distributed on 1 3 sector style diskettes Inmost of those cases the program manuf...

Page 132: ...gram used by the DIAGNOSTICS program It tests the keyboard MEMTEST OBJ Yet another program used by DIAGNOSTICS It tests the memory devices in the ACE DISKTEST OBJ It tests the disk drives PADLTEST OBJ...

Page 133: ...FRANKLIN COMPUTER Keyboard Code Map...

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Page 135: ...is the latest version for the ACE 1000 These are all compared to the Apple monitor known as the AUTOSTART ROM There are three primary areas of differences 1 The sign on name and its location have bee...

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Page 141: ...n preset at our factory to provide you with a normal 12K bank of RAM or ROM at SD000 to SFFFF We include this information for those of you who are interested in using some unusual features of the ACE...

Page 142: ...he 1 2K RAM bank until it is write inhibited From that point on the 12K RAM can not be write enabled except by turning the power off and back on 5 12 Normal mode This allows the user to read enable or...

Page 143: ...e computer from the diskette Character generally any number letter symbol or space on the keyboard computer calisthenics doing things like locking a file that s already locked command a computer user...

Page 144: ...what older than DOS 3 3 but that performs basically the same function 80 columns twice as many columns of data as your ACE normally lets you display on your video screen enter to type data into the co...

Page 145: ...hine a word commonly used synonymously with computer main electronics board the large piece of plastic like material that houses the majority of the electronic components in your computer master a dis...

Page 146: ...tioning of a diskette in a disk drive RESET the button you might consider using if your program has gone crazy but which you must avoid at all costs if your computer is reading or writing data on a di...

Page 147: ...m the computer itself write protect tab a piece of adhesive plastic or paper approximately x 1 used to cover the rectangular notch on the side of a diskette so that it s impossible to write anything o...

Page 148: ...cter 3 1 1 through 3 14 4 13 4 15 4 37 Command 4 5 4 1 1 through 4 15 4 27 through 4 44 Compatibility 1 18 1 19 1 38 1 39 4 32 Copy COPY C opy 4 5 through 4 11 4 22 4 36 4 43 4 49 CP M 1 39 4 16 Curso...

Page 149: ...4 1 29 1 30 1 31 Floppy disk system 1 14 1 31 Format F ormai 4 22 4 28 through 4 32 4 34 4 39 4 45 FUD 4 9 4 18 4 22 4 24 4 26 through 4 46 4 49 HELLO 4 14 through 4 17 4 19 4 20 4 23 4 24 4 33 4 34 4...

Page 150: ...aging 1 32 Peripherals 1 25 Power cord 3 2 3 7 PRETTY PATTERN 4 25 4 50 Printer 1 26 1 27 Printer interlace card 1 27 L 28 Program 1 9 1 40 1 41 through 1 43 4 14 through 4 47 See also Appendix B Appl...

Page 151: ...rface card 1 36 through 1 38 Text file 4 15 4 30 4 34 Turning the machine on 3 9 TV 1 25 1 26 1 45 Utility program See DOS FUD Unlock UNLOCK U nlock 4 15 4 19 4 20 4 36 4 42 4 45 Verify V erify 4 36 4...

Page 152: ...A file Type BR U N The name of some Type B file or BRUN The name of some Type B file or BRUN Th 3 name of some Type B file Type LOCK The name of any file or LOCK The name of any file or LOCK The name...

Page 153: ...of any file Insert a new diskette The name of any Type A file D1 D2 D1 Replace new diskette with DOS diskette LOAD The name of any Type A file D1 Replace DOS diskette with the new diskette bAVE The n...

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