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Once you've mastered the basic steps however, you will need to refer to the rest of
this manual in order to make full use of the 1541 *s features. In fact, before you begin, you
should take a look at the following short sections, which offer precautions on handling the
equipment: "Simple maintenance tips," "Safety rules for diskette care," and "Safety
rules for removing diskettes."
1. Unpack, hook-up, and turn on the disk drive.
There's no shortcut through this part. You'll have to read this section to find out
what connects to what, when to turn everything on, and how to empty the drive.
If you run into any problems at this point, refer to the Troubleshooting Guide.
Gently insert a pre-programmed diskette.
For the purpose of demonstration, use the Test/Demo diskette that was included
with the disk drive.
If you run into any problems at this point, refer to Chapter 2, "Inserting a
Diskette."
3. Type:
LOAD "HOW TO USE",8 (forBasic2)
DLOAD "HOW TO USE"(for Basic 3.5)
Press: RETURN
HOW TO USE is the name of a particular program on the Text/Demo diskette. To
load a different BASIC program, substitute the name of that program inside the
quotation marks.
If you want to load a program that isn't written in BASIC language, you must
use the Basic 2 command and add the following after,the 8 in that command: ,1
If you run into any problems at this point, refer to Chapter 2, the section enti
tled "Loading a Packaged Program."
4. After you perform step 3, the following will appear on the screen:
SEARCHING FOR HOW TO USE
LOADING
READY
At this point, type RUN and press the RETURN key and follow the directions
for the program.
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