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Chapter
3
EXPLORING
THE KEYBOARD
You can not communicate effectively with the computer until you have explored the key-
board. Actually, the computer has two keyboards. One looks very much like a typewriter
keyboard, the other is a calculator-style keyboard used to rapidly enter numbers. See
Figure 4.
Figure 4 - The Series 8000 Keyboard
Most of the keys on the typewriter-like keyboard look and function just like their type-
writer counterparts except they cause characters to be displayed on the CRT rather than
printed on a piece of paper.
Figure 5 shows the different characters the keyboard causes to be displayed on the CRT.
Figure 5 - Series 8000 Character Display
As
mentioned earlier, most of the keys function like those on a typewriter. The exceptions
to this are the function keys. The function keys are described briefly in Table 2.
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