SAM Coupe Disk Drive Manual 6
THIS IS YOUR DISK
DRIVE CALLING!
Insert the disk drive into the recess and
press it home until the connection is fully
made and the front of the drive is flush
with the front of the computer. (You can
make sure of this by looking through the
slots in the base of the computer.) Now make
the connection really secure: take the two
screws from the SAM Drive packaging, and
screw them into the holes you'll find on the
underside of the Coupe towards the left-hand
side. FAILURE TO USE THE SCREWS WILL DAMAGE
YOUR DRIVE, but they MUST NOT BE TOO TIGHT.
That's one drive. If you're have two, do
exactly the same, on the right-hand side of
the computer. Now, you're all set up and
ready to go. Almost...
Turn the power back on. With
your
drive
installed, you might expect that you'd be
ready to start saving and loading with it.
But you're not yet. The problem is that the
computer needs to be told whether it's
dealing with a cassette recorder or a disk
drive.
Read and understand this section, but don't
do anything yet. We'll give you further
instructions in the next section.
DEVICE is the command which tells the
computer which storage device it's
communicating with.
Without instructions, the computer normally
defaults to DEVICE T - it assumes that
storage is to a cassette tape. To use disk
drive number 1 (the left-hand drive), you
could simply type:
DEVICE d or
DEVICE d1 or
DEVICE D1
and press the <RETURN> key as usual.
This would mean that all subsequent SAVE,
LOAD, MERGE and VERIFY commands would apply
to disk drive 1. To revert to tape or move
to disk drive 2 for a long session, you'd
simply type in DEVICE T or DEVICE D2.
But to save you typing DEVICE D at the
beginning of every disk drive session, we
give you a short-cut: when you press the F9
function key, the Coupe automatically sets
DEVICE D1.
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