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Atari 1500 Owner's Manual page 5

Disk drive

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WARNING: Your ATARI1050 Disk
Drive should be placed 12 inches
or more from your television.
Your TV creates a strong magnetic
field that could affect the informa-
tion recorded on your diskettes.
4
Turn on the disk drive. Both
the POWERlight (next to the
ONIOFF switch) and the BUSY
light (above the switch) will go
on. When the BUSYlight goes off,
you may insert a diskette.
1
Turn off the power to all com-
ponents of your computer system.
2
Plug theAC Power Adapter in-
to the wall socket. Then plug the
smaller end of the Adapter cord
into the hole marked POWERIN
on the back of the disk drive.
3
Plug one end of the Serial I/O
Cable into the jack marked
PERIPHERAL o n the computer con-
sole. Then plug the other end of
the cable into one of the two
jacks marked 1/0 CONNECTORS
located on the back of the disk
drive. (If you have an ATARIPro-
gram Recorder, you may want to
plug it into the remaining 1/0 con-
nector jack.)
CONNECTING
YOUR ATARI 1050 DISK DRIVE
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Insert a diskette carefully into
the drive opening with the label
facing up and toward you. After
sliding the diskette all the way in-
to the slot, turn the latch on the
front of the drive to the down
(vertical) position.
Although your disk drive is now
ready to use with your computer,
it's recommended thot you read
the rest of this manual and
An
Introduction to the Disk Operating
System
before operating the
drive.

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