Olympia People, User Manual

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Storing on Changing Diskettes
Diskettes
When working with the PEOPLE
Personal Microcomputer it will
from time to time be necessary to
make a copy of the data you’ve
processed on a diskette in one of
the diskette drives. This could be
either for external use, or for
safekeeping.
The following assumes that the
CP/M-86 system diskette is in
disk drive A and that diskettes
have just been exchanged in disk
drive B. The error message below
will result if you now try to write
on the diskette in disk drive B.
To store the data on the diskette
in the disk drive, use the instruc­
tions in the manual accompanying
the application software.
You have two options:
(1) Remove the diskette from the
disk drive which contains the
application software and copy
your data.
(2) Insert a blank, formatted
diskette into the empty disk
drive, and copy the data.
Then:
• Remove the diskette and
resume your previous
operation.
Diskettes can be changed as
needed.
R/O means read/only. The disk­
ette cannot yet be written on,
only read from, even though the
notch is not taped over.
A special routine contained in the
CP/M-86 operating system pro­
tects this newly-inserted diskette
from unintentionally writing the
data stored in the working
memory over the data already
stored on the diskette.
Depressing [RETURN] returns
the system to the CP/M-86 level.
(See the next section on Warm
Start or Warm Boot.)
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