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Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL

CP/M ENHANCEMENTS

When all goes well, one of your drives’ “busy”

light will be on and the drive should be quietly

spinning waiting for a diskette. Simply oblige

it by inserting your CP/M master diskette from

Microsoft. (Label should be up and the last

thing to go in the door.) Then close the drive

door slowly. The door may require a slight

amount of force, but there should be no solid

resistance against its closing. If there is

solid resistance, you probably haven’t inserted

the diskette all the way.

Your Apple will respond by displaying the CP/M

“sign on” message including Microsoft’s copy-

right notice. This indicates that you have just

successfully “booted” CP/M (congratulations).

Part of the “sign on” message will indicate that

you have just booted a 44K CP/M system. This is

correct, you will create a 56K system as part of

these enhancement procedures. The last thing

your Apple should say is “A>”. This is your

prompt to enter a command. A real quick one to

try for you first time CP/M users is:

DIR

CP/M will indulge you by displaying the files

which Microsoft so nicely included with the CP/M

operating system.

Enough playing, time to get back down to busi-

ness. Insert the Rana Enhancer Diskette in

drive B: (slot six, drive two), then type:

DIR B:

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