Using The 1186; Turning The 1186 On; Booting The 1186 - Xerox 1186 User Manual

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USING THE 1186
Turning the 1186 On
The power switch is on the front of the processor
unit near the top Gust under "Xerox"). The switch is
labeled with a 0 and a 1; 0 is off, 1 is on. Turn the
1186 on by pushing the power switch to the 1
position. The screen should flash and after a
minute or two, the boot icons (on-screen
representations of the ten function keys at the top
of the keyboard) should appear. Also on the front
of the processor is the boot button (labeled B
Reset), a green "power on" light, and three red
lights which are used for diagnostic purposes (see
chapter 7, Diagnostics).
Note: Wait at least three minutes if you decide to
turn the processor on after turning it off.
Booting the 1186
The installation and diagnostic software delivered
with your Xerox 1186 is bound into a package called
a boot file. (The Lisp Library packages and the Lisp
Users packages, among others, are not bootable
files. They must be explicitly loaded when you are
running Interlisp-D). The process of loading a boot
file into the 1186 is called booting. Boot files may be
booted from either the rigid disk or a floppy disk.
Normally, the rigid disk is configured so that
powering up the processor resumes the last
Interlisp-D session.
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