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Fa/con030 Owner's Manual
bee i c o n
retrieves information from the disk dri ve. You cannot proceed to another action
while the bee icon i s on screen.
bit
The smal lest unit of computer data (a binary d i g i t ) . Eight b i t s equal one byte.
( See byte . )
boot
I n itial system l oad procedure. I f the procedure for loading your system i s i n
R O M , booting is accomplished b y switching o n your system. ( See coldstart and
warmstart . )
boot disk
busy l i g h t
writing to a disk.
byte
A u n i t of computer data. Each byte consists of e i ght b i t s , prov i d i n g 256
possible values. For example, the letter )\''Is stored i n memory as one byte. ( See bit
and kilobyte . )
cache
A special coprocessing c irc u i t found i n m o s t Atari T O S comp uters t hat
greatly improves the speed operations.
C D - R O M
discs and sends the output to the computer.
c l i c k
To q u i c k l y p re s s and release a m o u se butto n . A c l i c k on the l e ft m o u se
button selects items on the desktop. ( See double-click and shift-cl i c k . )
clock/ca lendar
Control Panel .
close box
close the current window.
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Glossary
The i c on d i s p l ayed o n s c reen w h e n e v e r the c o m p u te r , tran s fers or
A disk containing the system files needed t o boot a computer.
The l ight on a disk drive i ndicating that the drive is reading from or
drive A computer-contro l l e d de v ice that reads h i gh-capac i t y optical
The fi le-dating feature built i n t o t h e computer a n d set from the
The sma l l box i n the u pper left corner o f an active w i ndow, u sed to
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