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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – Communications regulation information vii; Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo 1; Macintosh Basics tour 10; Contents
  • Page 7 – Communications regulation information; FCC statement
  • Page 9 – Plug in the power adapter; Your computer’s power adapter comes with a detached power cord.; WARNING; Use only a PowerBook Duo power adapter with your; Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo; Follow the steps in this chapter to
  • Page 10 – hole grounded outlet or power strip.; Your PowerBook is equipped with a three-wire grounding
  • Page 11 – Open the display; Slide the latch to the right and lift up the display.
  • Page 12 – Turn on the computer
  • Page 13 – Problems turning on your computer?; The computer made a sound, but you can’t see anything on the screen.
  • Page 14 – What to do next; If you have never used a Macintosh computer before,; Experienced PowerBook users:; Skim this book for information about your
  • Page 15 – Turning your computer off; If the computer is on, choose Shut Down from the Special menu.; Putting your computer to sleep; You can also put the computer to sleep by closing the display.
  • Page 16 – Automatic sleep; For more information on sleep and automatic sleep, see Chapter 6.; Restarting a computer that’s already on; To restart your computer:; Choose Restart from the Special menu.
  • Page 17 – Learning to Use Your Computer; Go through the exercises in this; the basic skills you need to master.; If you need to turn off your computer at any point before
  • Page 18 – Roll the trackball to move the arrow pointer (
  • Page 21 – Now your screen should look like the following illustration:
  • Page 22 – Press the trackball button twice in quick succession.; Now your screen should look like the following picture:; Follow the instructions on the screen and work through the tour.; When you finish the tour, continue with the rest of this chapter.
  • Page 23 – You should now have completed the Macintosh Basics tour.; Reviewing what you’ve learned; What is the name of the area where you do all your work? (It’s shown
  • Page 25 – Circle the active window on the desktop below. How do you make a
  • Page 26 – Label the parts of this window.
  • Page 27 – Answers to the review questions; What is the area called where you do all your work?; Circle the hard disk
  • Page 28 – The close box
  • Page 29 – Practice session; If you get lost at any point during the practice session, or if; : Creating a new document
  • Page 30 – Use the keyboard to type a few lines of text into the blank document.
  • Page 32 – Open the File menu and choose Quit to quit the SimpleText program.; The SimpleText program closes, along with your document.; Check for the file you saved in the hard disk window.
  • Page 33 – : Storing your work inside a folder; Open the File menu and choose New Folder.
  • Page 34 – The “My Work” folder window opens, and you can see your Practice File.
  • Page 35 – : Throwing an item away; If the folder named “My Work” is not already open, open it.
  • Page 36 – Open the Special menu and choose Empty Trash.; The Trash is emptied and the Trash icon returns to normal.
  • Page 37 – Clues on your screen; Is this the right program?
  • Page 38 – If an unwanted window or box contains a Cancel button, click it.
  • Page 39 – Basic Skills; Refer to this chapter for information
  • Page 40 – Working with icons; An icon is a picture that represents something else.; Selecting icons
  • Page 42 – Removing items from the disk and retrieving them from the Trash; Working with windows
  • Page 43 – Viewing the contents of a window; Making a window active; Opening higher level folders or disks; Hold down the
  • Page 44 – Working with documents; Opening and closing a document; Opening a document from within a program
  • Page 45 – Saving and naming documents; Choosing a folder when saving a document
  • Page 46 – Working with disks; Preparing a new floppy disk for use; See “Using Disks” in the; Ejecting a floppy disk; Copying the contents of a disk
  • Page 47 – Erasing the contents of a disk; Organizing your desktop; Creating a new folder
  • Page 49 – Important care and safety instructions; Warning; Do not use the computer in or near water.; Refer to this chapter for important
  • Page 50 – Caution; Do not use the computer in wet or dusty environments.
  • Page 51 – Important; Caring for batteries; Always handle batteries carefully.
  • Page 52 – Health-related information about computer use; Musculoskeletal discomfort
  • Page 53 – Eye fatigue; To prevent discomfort and eye fatigue:
  • Page 54 – Arranging your work area and equipment; Chair
  • Page 55 – Change hand positions often to avoid fatigue.; Mouse
  • Page 56 – External monitor; If you use an external monitor, this suggestion may be helpful.; Avoiding fatigue
  • Page 57 – What is the Control Strip?; This chapter describes working with
  • Page 58 – Closing the Control Strip; To open the Control Strip:; Click once on the tab.; The Control Strip opens.; Click the tab at the end of the Control Strip.
  • Page 59 – Resizing the Control Strip; Click and drag the tab.; Hiding the Control Strip; Choose Control Panels from the Apple (; The Control Strip automatically disappears from the screen.
  • Page 60 – Moving the Control Strip; Hold down the Option key and drag the Control Strip by its tab.; Rearranging the modules in the Control Strip; Hold down the Option key and drag each module you want to move.; Using the Control Strip; Monitoring the charge level of the battery; The Battery Monitor has four parts:
  • Page 62 – Customizing the Battery Monitor module; Click the Battery Monitor module in the Control Strip.; You cannot hide the battery icon.; Changing the battery conservation settings; Click the Power Settings module in the Control Strip.
  • Page 63 – Spinning down the hard disk; To spin down the hard disk:; Click the HD Spin Down module in the Control Strip.; The icon shows that the hard disk is off.; Putting the computer to sleep; Click the Sleep Now module in the Control Strip.
  • Page 64 – Changing the file sharing options; Click the File Sharing module in the Control Strip.
  • Page 65 – Changing the sound settings; Your computer’s sound volume can be changed from the Control Strip:; Click the Sound Volume module in the Control Strip.; For more information on sound, see the Macintosh Reference book.; Turning an AppleTalk connection on and off; Click the AppleTalk Switch module in the Control Strip.
  • Page 66 – Choose the feature you want from the pop-up menu.; Using video mirroring; You can turn video mir roring on and off from the Control Strip.; Click the Video Mirroring module in the Control Strip.
  • Page 67 – Power Management; Power sources; Main battery; Your computer’s main power source is a nickel-metal-hydride; AC power; You can run your computer from any standard electrical outlet by; Monitoring the battery charge level; There are two ways you can monitor the charge level of your battery:; Use the Battery Monitor module in the Control Strip.; See Chapter 5 for; Use the Battery desk accessory.; See the next section for instructions.; Read this chapter to learn
  • Page 68 – Using the Battery desk accessory; To use the Battery desk accessory, follow these steps:; gauge and then click the sleep button.
  • Page 69 – Responding to low-power messages; What you should do; When you see a low-power message, you should do one of the following:; Plug in the power adapter.; What you should know; Recharge a depleted battery as soon as possible. Leaving a
  • Page 70 – Recharging the battery; There are two ways to recharge a battery:; Recharging in the computer; Plug in the power adapter as shown.; Use only the power adapter that came with your computer.
  • Page 71 – Recharging in a recharger; To recharge a battery, follow these steps:; Place the recharger on a level surface.; Use only the power adapter that came with your computer
  • Page 72 – Recharging in both the computer and a recharger
  • Page 73 – Removing or replacing the battery; To remove or replace the main battery, follow these steps:; Save your work, and then choose Sleep from the Special menu.; The door is physically attached to the battery.; Carefully pull the battery out of its compartment.
  • Page 74 – Replacement batteries come with a door attached.; Close the battery door by pushing it back into place.; Check to make sure the battery is properly inserted (the battery; Disposing of dead batteries; Nickel-metal-hydride batteries contain metals that can be; Damaged nickel-metal-hydride batteries may leak small
  • Page 75 – It takes 2 hours to run the Battery Reconditioning program and; Plug in your PowerBook using your AC power adapter.
  • Page 76 – The following appears:
  • Page 78 – If you own a PowerBook Duo 230; appear on the screen.; Make sure to save your work when you see the low-power messages.; Recharge the battery completely before using that battery again.; See “Recharging the Battery” earlier in this chapter for help.; Maximizing work time; Ways to conserve battery power; Turn down the screen brightness (
  • Page 79 – Adjusting the Battery Conservation settings; The easiest approach
  • Page 80 – Close the PowerBook control panel.; Your computer is connected to a shared disk on the network.; More about automatic sleep
  • Page 81 – Minutes it takes if you choose; Choosing Custom options; Battery Conservation settings
  • Page 82 – The battery conservation slider reflects the changes you make.; Processor cycling
  • Page 83 – To conserve battery power, turn processor cycling off only when; Processor speed; To slow the processor speed, follow these steps.
  • Page 84 – Power conservation; To change the power conservation settings, follow these steps:
  • Page 85 – Customizing and Traveling With Your PowerBook; Customizing your PowerBook; Reconnecting to shared disks
  • Page 86 – Automatically reconnecting to shared disks
  • Page 87 – Setting up a RAM Disk; rebuild it every time you restart your PowerBook.; If you have less than 8 MB of memory; Create a folder called “RAM Disk Backup.”; Try to keep additions to this folder to a minimum.
  • Page 88 – The Memory control panel appears.; Click the On button under RAM Disk.; A RAM Disk icon appears on your desktop.; Copy the contents of your RAM Disk Backup folder to your RAM disk.; When you need to turn off the computer, make sure you choose
  • Page 89 – If you have at least 8 MB of memory; This creates a folder called “System Folder copy.”; Remove any extra extensions, fonts, and control panels you don’t use.
  • Page 92 – Using the RAM Disk; plugged into the power adapter.; Using the power adapter saves your battery.; Put your PowerBook to sleep.
  • Page 93 – Improving pointer display; The following control panel appears:; Click the mouse tracks length you want.
  • Page 94 – Printing later; If you use a PostScript; Choose Print in the application program you are using.; Click Print in the dialog box.
  • Page 95 – Traveling with the PowerBook; Do not check your computer as baggage. Car ry it with you.
  • Page 96 – Storing the PowerBook; Save your work on a hard disk or floppy disks.; Service and support
  • Page 97 – The PowerBook Duo Dock and Duo Dock II; Building a PowerBook Duo System; This chapter describes the options
  • Page 100 – The PowerBook Duo MiniDock; an external 1.4 MB floppy disk drive
  • Page 101 – The PowerBook Duo Floppy Adapter
  • Page 102 – Using other equipment with your Duo system; Connecting a modem; the printer/modem port on the PowerBook Duo; Make sure the computer is in sleep or shut down.; See the documentation that came with the modem.; Make sure the modem is turned off.
  • Page 103 – Wake or restart the computer.; If your computer does have an inter nal modem, continue with step 7.
  • Page 104 – Connecting a printer
  • Page 105 – Connecting sound input and output devices; ) to which you can connect a microphone to record sounds on your; Adding memory to your computer; Do not plug a sound output device (such as a pair of
  • Page 106 – Using a monitor for presentations; the PowerBook Display control panel; Using SCSI Devices; For help with SCSI devices, see Chapter 9.
  • Page 107 – Connecting SCSI devices
  • Page 108 – Installing software; The ID numbers of Apple SCSI devices can be set as follows.; Make sure the SCSI device is turned off.; Using two or more devices with the same SCSI ID number
  • Page 109 – Hard drives installed in the Duo Dock or Duo Dock II are preset
  • Page 110 – Checking that the SCSI chain is properly terminated; If you are attaching one SCSI device
  • Page 111 – Connecting cables; Shut down your PowerBook and turn off all SCSI devices in the chain.; The illustration shows where to add cable terminators.; Connecting more than one SCSI device; Connecting one SCSI device; When making SCSI connections, always turn off power to all
  • Page 112 – The total length of a SCSI chain should not exceed 20 feet; Using your PowerBook as a SCSI disk; Follow the steps for connecting and disconnecting SCSI; Once your SCSI devices are connected, always turn them on
  • Page 113 – Connecting your PowerBook as a SCSI disk; Always shut down the PowerBook before connecting or
  • Page 114 – If you do not see the SCSI icon, and the PowerBook either
  • Page 115 – Always disconnect your PowerBook from the adapter cable
  • Page 116 – Quitting SCSI disk mode; Do not leave the adapter cable attached to the PowerBook. If you
  • Page 117 – Tips and Troubleshooting; If you have a problem with your PowerBook Duo and; Refer to this chapter for solutions to
  • Page 118 – The PowerBook Duo; The computer won’t start.; Insert the Disk Tools disk into the floppy disk drive.
  • Page 119 – The computer just stopped.; Inter rupt the program by pressing the
  • Page 120 – Power; The battery is draining too fast.
  • Page 121 – The computer does not go to sleep if it is being used in a Duo Dock.
  • Page 122 – The screen; The screen looks blurred or out of focus.
  • Page 123 – The pointer won’t move at all.; You will lose any work you have not saved.; A window has disappeared.
  • Page 124 – The trackball; The trackball doesn’t work smoothly it sticks or jumps when rolled.; Remove the trackball by turning the trackball retainer ring; You just cleaned the trackball, and it feels worse than before.; Memory; A “not enough memory” message appears when you try to open a program.
  • Page 125 – The Duo Dock; You can’t insert the computer into the dock.; See the manual that came with your Duo Dock for more information.
  • Page 126 – The Duo MiniDock; You can’t turn on the docked computer.
  • Page 127 – SCSI devices; You can’t turn on the computer after connecting a SCSI device.
  • Page 128 – Disk drives and disks; The hard disk keeps stopping and starting again.
  • Page 129 – An application program may be using the file. Quit the program.; You can’t save or copy files onto a floppy disk.
  • Page 130 – Modems; The external modem doesn’t work.; See the modem manual for more information about using your modem.; Printers; Your computer can’t find the printer.; The printer may be turned off. Turn it on.; Your printer does not appear in the Chooser window.
  • Page 132 – Networks; You can’t find or can’t open icons needed to set up file sharing.
  • Page 133 – Application programs; A program won’t open.
  • Page 136 – Before you begin; Before you install a new version of system software, make a; Installing system software for the first time; Shut down your computer.; The Disk Tools icon appears on your computer’s screen.
  • Page 137 – The Installer program opens automatically.
  • Page 138 – The Easy Install dialog box appears.; Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
  • Page 139 – Reinstalling system software
  • Page 141 – Installing customized system software
  • Page 143 – What is file synchronization?; file synchronization. With the; Refer to this chapter when you want
  • Page 144 – Starting the PowerBook File Assistant; Double-click the PowerBook File Assistant icon.; The File Assistant Setup window appears:; Linking files or folders for synchronization; Files cannot be linked if they are not identical copies, but you can
  • Page 145 – To link files or folders, follow these steps:; Drag the matching icon to the other selection box.
  • Page 146 – Setting the direction of the link; Click the pair of linked files to select it.; Click the item selection box for either file or folder in the pair.; Choose the direction you want from the Synchronize menu.
  • Page 147 – Linking non-matching folders; Choose Preferences from the File Menu.; The following dialog box appears:; Click the checkbox to allow non-matching folder names.
  • Page 148 – Deleting a linked pair; Click the pair you want to delete to select it.; To select all pairs, choose Select All from the Edit menu.; Choose Delete Pairs from the Edit menu.; The pairs you selected are deleted from the Setup window.
  • Page 149 – Synchronizing linked folders or files; Connect the disks containing the files you are synchronizing.
  • Page 150 – Manual synchronization; Select a pair, then choose Manual from the Synchronize menu.; A message appears telling you that the files are being updated.; Automatic synchronization
  • Page 151 – Understanding the alert messages; Choose Preferences from the File menu.; A dialog box appears.; Click the “Warn when can’t synchronize” checkbox to deselect it.; The messages do not appear.
  • Page 152 – Setting up completely automatic synchronization; Use the AutoRemounter control panel to reconnect to shared disks.; The Startup Items folder is in your PowerBook’s System Folder.
  • Page 153 – Macintosh PC Exchange at a glance
  • Page 154 – Using DOS-format disks on your Macintosh; The; Do not attempt to repair a DOS-format disk using disk repair
  • Page 155 – Creating a blank DOS-format disk; Insert a floppy disk.; Before you erase or initialize a disk, be sure that the disk
  • Page 156 – The Macintosh prepares the disk in the format you chose.
  • Page 157 – Opening DOS documents on your Macintosh; Opening a document from within a Macintosh program; Open the program you want to use.; A directory dialog box appears.; Select the document you want, and click Open.; Opening a document by double-clicking its icon
  • Page 158 – Assigning Macintosh programs to DOS documents
  • Page 163 – Adding an assignment to the PC Exchange control panel; To add an assignment, follow these steps:; The Control Panels folder opens.; Open the PC Exchange control panel.; The PC Exchange control panel appears.
  • Page 165 – Choose a document type from the Document Type pop-up menu.; If you don’t know which document type to choose, try TEXT.
  • Page 166 – Trying out an assignment; Insert a DOS-format floppy disk and open its icon.; If you have problems opening documents, see Chapter 10 of this book.; Editing the list of assignments
  • Page 167 – Sharing assignment lists with other users; Do not change the name of the PC Exchange Preferences file.; Saving documents onto a DOS-format disk; Be sure to leave at least 5K of extra disk space when you save or
  • Page 169 – Viewing the contents of a disk on your DOS computer; Do not delete or move any directories named
  • Page 170 – Index
  • Page 174 – See also troubleshooting 8
  • Page 175 – Install Me First disk, Installer program
  • Page 176 – See DOS, exchanging files with
  • Page 178 – also specific systems
  • Page 183 – The Apple Publishing System
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Page 3 - Communications regulation information vii; Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo 1; Macintosh Basics tour 10; Contents

iii Communications regulation information vii 1 Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo 1 Step 1 Plug in the power adapter 1 Step 2 Open the display 3 Step 3 Turn on the computer 4 What to do next 6 Turning your computer off 7 Putting your computer to sleep 7 Restarting a computer that’s already on 8 2 Learni...

Page 7 - Communications regulation information; FCC statement

Communications regulation information FCC statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital devicein accordance with the specifications in Part 15 of FCC rules. See instructions if interference toradio or television reception is suspected. Radio and t...

Page 9 - Plug in the power adapter; Your computer’s power adapter comes with a detached power cord.; WARNING; Use only a PowerBook Duo power adapter with your; Setting Up Your PowerBook Duo; Follow the steps in this chapter to

To set up your PowerBook Duo for the first time, you need the power adapterand the power cord that came with your PowerBook. Step 1 Plug in the power adapter When you plug in the power adapter, the computer’s battery recharges. Youshould plug the power adapter in now in case the battery has drained ...

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