Installing The Pc Dual Cable - Alphasmart AS Pro Owner's Manual

5. Connect the AlphaSmart to the Mac keyboard cable.
6. Download the data file from the AlphaSmart to the empty
ClarisWorks word processing document by pressing the
Send key on the AlphaSmart.
7. Select all the downloaded text by doing a Select All from
the Mac Edit menu. (
8. Copy the data to the clipboard by choosing Copy from
the Edit menu (
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9. Make the database the active ClarisWorks document either
by choosing the database file in the View menu or by
clicking once in the database window (Do not click on an
individual field in the document to make it the active
field or all the data will be put into the one field).
10. Paste the data from the clipboard by selecting Paste from
the Edit menu or by pressing
ferred to the database, beginning with the second record
if there was already a record in the database (a newly-
created database will have an empty record as the first
record).
11. Delete the empty record if needed. Save and close the
database. Reopen to verify that the data is there and
transmitted correctly. When you wish, you may discard
the data in the unnamed text file. Subsequent transmis-
sion of new data will be appended to the end of the data-
base and will not create a new blank record.
If the database contains calculated fields, you may simply
skip the field by entering a tab. When the data is pasted it
will make the calculations automatically in the database.
If you find errors in the way the data appears in the database
after it has been transferred, you can make the corrections in
the original AlphaSmart file and then retransmit the data to
the word processing file.
I N S T A L L I N G T H E P C D U A L C A B L E
A special adapter cable is required to connect an AlphaSmart
to a PC. There are two different types of keyboard cables
used on different models of PCs: 5-pin and 6-pin. The PC
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AlphaSmart Pro
Dual cable allows an AlphaSmart to be attached to either a
5-pin or 6-pin PC.
As shown in Figure 3, one end of the PC Dual cable connects
to the PC and one end connects to the AlphaSmart. When
the normal PC keyboard is being used with your PC, the
Dual PC cable acts as a keyboard extension cable so the user
doesn't have to reach behind their computer to
disconnect/connect the keyboard cable (see Figure 4)
Figure 3. PC Dual cable
Warning: Do not connect a PC keyboard and an
AlphaSmart to a PC at the same time—your PC will
become hopelessly confused and will have to be rebooted!
Unlike the Macintosh, PCs only allow one keyboard device
to be attached at a time. The Dual PC cable is not a PC key-
board "Y" cable.
Figure 4. Keyboard connected to a PC with the PC Dual cable
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