Clearing The Screen; Typing On The Virtual Screen; Automatic Scrolling - Epson HX-20 Operation Manual

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You can erase the entire virtual screen, just by pressing a single key:
This clears the virtual screen, and homes the cursor.
Typing on the virtual screen is as easy as...well, as easy as typing.
For example, let's say you want to type the expression, "NOW IS
THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF
THEIR PARTY." (Don't type anything yet.) You've just pressed
the
key, so you're looking at a blank screen, with a cursor in the
upper left corner.
To begin typing the expression, press the I"] key. Two things
will happen: first, an "N" will appear on the screen at the cursor
location, and the cursor will move one space to the right. So the
screen will change from this:
to this:
The cursor shows you where the next character will appear. Each
time you press a letter, number, or punctuation key, the correspond-
ing character appears on the screen at the cursor location, and the
cursor moves one space to the right.
This cursor behavior will continue for a while. When the cursor
nears the right edge of the screen, however, something called
automatic scrolling will occur.
When you have typed the first 17 letters of the expression, your
screen will look like this:
NOW IS THE TIME F -
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