Turning Off The Amiga; The Amiga Keyboard; The Main Keyboard Area - Commodore Amiga A1200 User Manual

Turning Off the Amiga
The rest of this guide assumes that you are familiar with basic
Amiga operations and terminology.
Turning Off the Amiga
When you finish a computing session and want to turn off the
Amiga:
1. Save to disk any work that you want to keep. Turning off or
rebooting the Amiga erases whatever is in memory.
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Important: Do not turn off or reboot the Amiga while any disk
activity is in progress! Wait at least 5 seconds after all disk
drive activity lights have gone out before removing floppy disks
or turning off the Amiga. Also, if you are using software that
automatically saves to disk periodically or which allows remote
access to the Amiga's disks through a network, exit the software
or disable the network connection before powering off or
rebooting.
2. Remove any disks from the floppy drive(s).
3. Switch the power switch on the side of the power supply to the
off(O) position. The power light on the right front of the Amiga
will go out.
4. Turn offthe monitor and any peripherals.
Note If you want to turn the Amiga on again immediately,
wait at least 30 seconds after turning the machine off
before turning it on again.
The Amiga Keyboard
The Amiga keyboard is similar to industry-standard computer
keyboards. It has four sections:
• The main keyboard
• The numeric keypad