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Reference A! Help
This reference helps with pro-
blems you may encounter while
going through this manual. For
additional help, see the
TELCOM, Multiplan, and
BASIC manuals.
General
Red battery light on. When the
light first comes on, you have 20
minutes of battery power left.
Immediately turn the power off,
and insert new batteries or use
the AC power cord.
Screen and keyboard freezes.
This could be caused by several
factors: (1) The calculator may
be on. Turn it off by pressing
(GRPH) and then unlocking
(NUM). (2) An operation may be
in progress. Press (SHIFT) and
then fBREAK) at the same time.
Try this several times. (3) The
Tandy 200 may be hung up. At
last resort, press Reset, the small
button on the rear of the Tandy
200 next to the RS232C connec-
tor. Try this several times.
Cannot return to Main Menu.
Press one of the following keys:
ODD, the spacebar, or (SHIFT)
(BREAK! (at the same time).
A file is no longer on Main
Menu. You may be in the wrong
RAM bank. Press CED or (TAB")
to move from bank to bank.
No files are on the Main Menu.
Check the Memory Switch on the
bottom of the Tandy 200. If it is
off, all the contents in RAM
have been permanently erased.
Screen blank. Use the DISP dial
on the right side of the Tandy
200 to adjust your display. If
this does not help, push the
power button to make sure the
power is on. Then check for
dead batteries or an improperly
connected AC power cord.
Image not clear. Use the DISP
dial (located on the right side of
the Tandy 200) to adjust the
screen to your field of vision.
Characters printing as numbers.
Depress the NUM key (at the
bottom of the keyboard) and the
right keys print as characters,
rather than numbers on a
numeric keypad.
Characters printing as all caps
only. Depress (CAPS LOCiD to
get in the upper- and lowercase
mode.
TEXT, SCHEDL, ADDRSS,
and MSPLAN
Insertion is slow. This happens
when you are inserting text at the
beginning of a long scrolling
string of text. To shorten the text
string, insert a carriage return by
pressing (ENTER). (You can
delete the carriage return later.)
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