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to be loaded. The procedure is as follows:
press the RESET button by pushing the write
lead plug through the hole in the case above
the ON/OFF switch. (No force is needed - it is
only a push button!) You will see this
message:
DATAMAN S4 BIOS
1.1
128K BYTES RAM
START LIBRARY?
You will notice that the version of LIBRARY is
not identified, because there is no LIBRARY
program loaded. If S4 sees what it thinks is a
valid library it will ask you if you want to run it.
ESC = NO
ENTER = YES.
If you do want to load a new library press ESC
then LIB . Put your LIBRARY ROM in the
socket and press ENTER S4 will load the
program contained in the LIBRARY ROM.
Then it will restart and run the program. If the
LIBRARY program loads correctly, S4 will
introduce it and display the version number.
When the
RESET button is pressed, S4
returns to low-level BIOS MODE, in which it
will only program LIBRARY PROMS of the
27256 variety. It is not intended that you
should use S4 in BIOS MODE without a
library loaded.NB.
In theory you will never
need to load the LIBRARY program. It will be
present in memory when you buy your S4 and
it will remain there, because S4's memory is
permanent and continuous for both programs
and data.
The only reasons for loading a
LIBRARY are to upgrade to a new version or
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