Apple IIgs Manuel d'utilisateur

Page 1 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMApple IIgs Owner's GuidePreface - The Incredible Stretching MachineThe Apple IIgs is

Page 10 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMyou press a combination of keys that tells the application to save your document. (The m

Page 11 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMdocument by that name on the disk and ask you to confirm that you want the new document

Page 12 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMFor example, you might need to know that information isn't stored inside the comput

Page 13 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMit.Using Mouse-Based ProgramsWhen you move the mouse across your desk, a small arrow, ca

Page 14 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMChoosing a commandMany mouse-based applications let you use a certain key combi-nation (

Page 15 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMWith mouse-based applications, you look at your document through a window. With someappl

Page 16 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMdisplayed overlapping the main menu, with enough of the main menu showing to remind you

Page 17 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMbreak in funny places after you make changes to a paragraph.An Errant Return CharacterSo

Page 18 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMBut in other applications, the word Jones and the word Jones followed by a space are asd

Page 19 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMon disks.Formatting a DiskBefore you can save documents on a blank disk, the disk has to

Page 2 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMyou don't need to write programs unless you want to; but many people prefer writing

Page 20 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMSaving to a disk in a certain disk driveIf you choose 3.5-inch Drive #1 or 3.5-inch Driv

Page 21 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMyou to create them with the System Disk.Once you've created your subdirectories, yo

Page 22 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMassumes you want to save it on the disk in the drive you last accessed.Disk Operating Sy

Page 23 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMwere formatted for DOS 3.3 or for Pascal. If they tried to save a Pascal document on a D

Page 24 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMIs it easy to use? If it uses a standard interface (that is, if it follows the conventio

Page 25 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMword that won't fit on the current line go to the start of the next line automatica

Page 26 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMApplication ProgramsDifferent data base applications have different limits on things lik

Page 27 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMCut, copy, and paste numbers and formulas from one cell to another.Change number format

Page 28 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PM(information like baud, number of data bits, number of stop bits, type of parity, and so

Page 29 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMGraphicsThere are all sorts of graphics applications: business graphics for converting n

Page 3 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMBesides using disks to start up applications, you'll use disks to store documents. D

Page 30 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMobject is to answer a question before the meteor containing the question crashes into th

Page 31 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMmoves, it leaves a trail on the screen. Ideally, you aren't just taught how many st

Page 32 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMaccounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, inventory), but with much greater speed,

Page 33 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMBy adding a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) card to your computer system and

Page 34 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMcapitalizationvowels and consonantsphonicsreading skillsverbsspellingnounscommaspronouns

Page 35 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMenergyBiologyplantsnucleic acidsenzyme kineticsreproductive organsbird classificationcir

Page 36 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMBASICLogoPascalAssemblerReligionBibleJewish historyHow-To'splay bridgedraw a floor

Page 37 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMdifferent users have different needs. The plotter that is indispensable to the landscape

Page 38 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMyou have used the Control Panel to designate your RAM disk as your startup disk drive, i

Page 39 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMThe only drawback to dot matrix printers is that, with some of them, you can see the pat

Page 4 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMdrive is the drive attached to the connector labeled drive 1 on the card.If you have driv

Page 40 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMeasier on the eyes; others, that a green display is easier to read. Some people prefer b

Page 41 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMIf you use your computer for accounting or you work with large data bases, you should co

Page 42 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMadvantage of software developed for other computers software that wouldn't otherwis

Page 43 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMimage on your monitor will roll or be out of alignment. To restore the standard U.S. set

Page 44 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMChoose Quit. If you got to the Control Panel by pressing Apple key-Control-Esc from anap

Page 45 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMlike.Important If you are using an NTSC color monitor, the colors you select won't

Page 46 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMClockYou already had some exposure to the Clock option when you learned how to change th

Page 47 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMcharacters, you have to release Caps Lock. But by setting the Shift Caps/Lowercase optio

Page 48 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMslots for a disk drive controller card, an interface card that controls one or two disk

Page 49 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMyou'll save yourself the bother of supplying specifications about your printer.If t

Page 5 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMIf you don't see the opening display, go through the following checklist to see if y

Page 50 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMAdd LF After CRSuppose you try printing something and you don't get any line feeds,

Page 51 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMunsure about what to select, choose No Parity.If the devices agree on odd parity as an e

Page 52 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMYou don't hear anything from your disk drive when you turn on the power.The disk dr

Page 53 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMYou get the message UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS.Fast speed might be interfering with the appli

Page 54 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMYou get the message I/O ERROR (Input/Output) on your screen.Takethe disk out of having t

Page 55 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMTry setting System Speed in the Control Panel Program to Normal.Every application has it

Page 56 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMTrouble Using the MouseYou run out of space on your desk before the mouse pointer on the

Page 57 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMTrouble With the DisplayThe image on the screen is rolling or out of alignment.The Apple

Page 58 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMThe screen is full of 2's or meaningless characters.The application was designed fo

Page 59 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMYou get the message ILLEGAL FILENAME when you try to save a document on a disk.Filename

Page 6 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMoption from the menu. Choosing the Quit option gives the application a chance to remind y

Page 60 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMChange the application's line feed setting to OFF, or use the Control Panel Program

Page 61 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMto receive data from the computer, and then usethat information to answer printer-specif

Page 62 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMFor example, the Apple II Plus keyboard generated only uppercase characters, so applicat

Page 63 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMThe original Apple II character generator ROM had two identical sets of uppercase invers

Page 64 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMKeyboard: Uppercase only; no Up or Down Arrow or Delete.Memory: 48K; expandable to 64K w

Page 65 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PM65C816 mode (that is, not emulating Apple II) can use most of the 256K. Memory expansion

Page 66 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMart application: An application for drawing.ASCII: Acronym for American Standard Code fo

Page 67 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMcancel an action.byte: A sequence of eight bits that represents an instruction, a letter

Page 68 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMClipboard: A special part of memory that stores the most recent thing you cut. You can p

Page 69 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMco-processor: A microprocessor on a card that overrides or works with the microprocessor

Page 7 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMmegahertz (its fast speed), or at 1 megahertz (the speed of the microprocessor in earlier

Page 70 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMtravel through the handset, so there's less distortion. See also acoustic-coupler m

Page 71 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMdrive number: An application might ask you to distinguish between disk drives by number.

Page 72 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMextended 80-column card: An interface card used in other models of the Apple II that add

Page 73 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMMost commercial information services are full-duplex.function: A built-in formula you ca

Page 74 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMicon: A symbol like the one on the back panel of the computer that shows you where to pl

Page 75 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMkey word: A word you designate when you're entering data (information) into certain

Page 76 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMtop level of options.mass storage device: A device, like a hard disk, that can store the

Page 77 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMwant to move items around on the screen.MouseText: Special characters, like check marks

Page 78 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMpaste: To put a copy of the contents of the Clipboard whatever was last cut or copied at

Page 79 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMProDOS: Stands for Professional Disk Operating System which is the primary operating sys

Page 8 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMChapter 2 - Once Over LightlyThis chapter reviews and expands on the computer concepts co

Page 80 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMresolution: The degree of clarity of your display. A monitor has better resolution than

Page 81 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMSelect button: A button on a printer that determines whether the printer should accept d

Page 82 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMspreadsheet application: An application that simplifies financial planning, cost estimat

Page 83 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMtelecommunications: The exchanging of information with other computers over phone lines.

Page 84 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMword processing application: A type of application designed to make writing and editing

Page 9 of 84II gsPrinted: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:14:50 PMclearly.The 40-column and 80-column formats are two text modes.A third way that applicati