License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE PRODUCT. YOUR USE OF THE PRODUCT DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE PRODUCT AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED.
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Congratulations! You now own a ROLODEX Electronics organizer, a powerful 64K electronic organizer that through advanced data compres- sion can hold 96K. Using this organizer you can: • keep track of daily appointments, • store and retrieve telephone numbers and...
Getting Started Before you can use your organizer for the first time, you must remove the battery insulation tape from your organizer. 1. Turn your organizer over. 2. Carefully pull the battery insulation tape out of the battery compartment. Note: You may have to reset your organizer by using a paperclip to gently press the Re- set button, located on the back.
Main Function Keys Toggles between the Calculator and CALC DATE the Calendar. Toggles between the Metric Converter CONV and the Currency Converter. Deletes a flashing character. EDIT Lets you make changes to an existing record. ENTER Goes to the next field or enters an item. Inserts a space between typed characters.
Toggles between the Home Time TIME and World Time. At the Home Time, turns the keytone on or off. At the Daily Alarm, enables or disables the Daily Alarm. At the Scheduler, enables or disables the Schedule Alarm. Turns the backlight on or off. Cycles through your records.
Using the Clocks Your organizer has two clocks that keep the time and date simultaneously: a Home Time, which can keep your current time, and a World Time, which keeps the time of 32 cities throughout the world. To Set the Home Time 1.
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To Use the World Time 1. Press TIME The World Time displays a city code (e.g., LON ). 2. Use world cities. City Code City Name Honolulu Anchorage Los Angeles Denver Chicago New York Toronto Caracas Rio de Janeiro London Paris Note: The World Time is based upon hours added to or subtracted from the Home Time...
Using the Daily Alarm You can set a Daily Alarm that acts as an alarm clock which chimes once a day at a specified time. When an alarm sounds, simply press a key to stop it. The alarm will sound for 20 seconds if you do not stop it.
Using the Phone Directories Your organizer has three Phone directories (Tel1, Tel2, and Tel3), which contain phone records. Phone records are made up of eight fields of information: Name, Company, Address, Phone 1, Phone 2, Fax/Pager, E-mail, and Note. Each field can hold up to 48 characters, except Address, which can hold up to 96 characters.
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Using the Phone Directories To Find a Phone Record 1. Press PHONE sired Phone Directory. Note: You can search only one phone direc- tory at a time. 2. Press the SEARCH keys ( peatedly to cycle through the phone records. 3.
Using the Phone Directories To Edit or Delete a Phone Record 1. Find a phone record. To learn how, read “To Find a Phone Record.” 2. To edit a phone record, first press EDIT, type your changes, and then press ENTER at the last field to store your changes.
Using the Scheduler In each record, you can enter a schedule event description and the time and date that event is going to occur. When that time arrives, your organizer can sound a reminder alarm. To Enter a Schedule Record 1.
Using the Scheduler To View, Edit, or Delete a Schedule Record 1. Press SCHD the screen. 2. Press the SEARCH keys ( to cycle through the Schedule records. 3. To edit a Schedule record, first press EDIT, type your changes, and then press ENTER at the last field to store your changes.
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Using Internet and Memo/ To Do To Enter a Memo, To Do, or Internet Record 1. Do one of the following: • To enter an Internet record, press • To enter a Memo record press until MEMO is displayed. • To enter a To Do record, press until TODO is displayed.
Using the Calculator To Make a Basic Calculation You can use your organizer as a 10-digit calculator. First, press the screen. Then type a number using the number keys, and then type a math operation (e.g., +,–, x, ). Type another number and then press = to see the result.
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Converting Measures and Currency To Convert Measures 1. Press CONV the screen. 2. Use the SEARCH keys ( through the conversion pairs. 3. Use the number keys to type an amount. 4. To convert the amount from the measure on the left into the measure on the right, press 5.
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Converting Measures and Currency Or use SYM to find a currency symbol. 4. Press ENTER to select the other cur- rency, make changes as needed and then press ENTER. 5. Type a rate of exchange and press ENTER. To clear a rate, press C/CE. To Convert Currency 1.
Using the Password This organizer has a secret mode, which allows you to create secret Phone, Schedule, Internet Memo, and To Do records that only someone with the password you set can use. Note: You do not need to set a password to use this organizer. Warning! If you forget your password, you will not be able to recover any of the secret data stored in your organizer.
Using the Password Note: Records that you create in secret mode can only be viewed or edited while in secret mode. 1. Press PHONE MEMO TO DO 2. Press PROG, type a record and then press ENTER to store it. 3.
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Installing the Organizer PC Link Use the following steps to install the Organizer PC Link onto your personal computer. Please note, the following steps assume that your 3.5” floppy disk drive is drive a: and your hard drive is c:. For futher information, view the readme file on your installation disk.
Using the Organizer Features Adding a Record 1. Turn on the Organizer PC Link software. 2. Press a function key to go to an organizer fea- ture. 3. Click Add Record . 4. Type information in each field, pressing TAB to cycle through the fields when needed.
Transmitting or Receiving Records Connecting the Serial Cable The following steps must be followed before you can transmit or receive records. Configuring the Organizer Software 1. Turn on the Organizer PC Link software on your personal computer. 2. Select Databank Model from the Options menu.
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Transmitting or Receiving Records For best results, perform the steps below in the order that they appear. Transmitting to your Handheld Organizer 1. Select the same organizer feature on both the Organizer PC Link and the handheld or- ganizer. To select records to be transmitted, highlight the desired records and select Select Record from the Edit menu.
Your organizer is powered by three CR-2032 batteries - two main batteries and one backup battery that stores your data when you change the main battery. Do not press the Reset button when changing batteries. Doing so may delete all of your stored information. The main batteries should be changed when LOW BATTERY appears on the display.
Specifications Model RF-2296 Organizer, 96K • Size: 13.2 x 9 x 1.4 cm. • Weight: 4 oz. • Main Batteries: 2 CR-2032 3-volt lithium; Backup Battery: 1 CR-2032 3-volt lithium • Storage capacity: 64K with turbo memory storage that holds 96K...
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FCC Notice NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. (“Franklin”) warrants to the end user that this product will be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of ONE YEAR from the date of original retail purchase, as evidenced by sales receipt. On discovery of a defect, the end user must return this product (transportation charges prepaid) either to the dealer from whom it was purchased or directly to Franklin at the address given below.
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