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Apple IIe Card User Manual

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printers still require the Serial Cards.

To support a non-printing serial device, you need either of the two serial

cards:

- If you have a non-printing device plugged into the modem port, you need the

Serial Card with a phone icon on it:

- If you have a non-printing device plugged into the printer port, you need

the Serial Card with a printer icon on it. (You'll have to make sure

AppleTalk is turned off in the Macintosh Chooser to use your device.)

Serial Cards are most commonly placed in slot 2. See your Apple IIe program

manuals to determine whether your programs have different requirements.

Use this information to change the plans you wrote down earlier.

Arranging the Cards in the Optional Panel

Now that you have your plans written down, you'll use the Option Panel to

move the cards according to your plan.

Before you begin: Make sure your Macintosh LC is turned on and you're in the

Macintosh environment. Also, make sure that you've written down your plans as

described earlier in this chapter.

1. If you're a floppy disk startup person, make sure you've started up from

the IIe Startup Disk.

See the instructions in "Starting Up From the IIe Startup Disk," at the

beginning of Chapter 3.

2. Double-click the IIe Startup icon.

You enter the Apple IIe environment.

3. Press Control-Command-Esc to open the Option Panel.

The Option Panel appears.

4. Use the big scroll bar to scroll down until you see the Slots icon.

5. Click the Slots icon.

The slots and cards are displayed.

6. Drag the card icons to the slots where they belong.

If you don't know how to move the card icons, see "Practicing Moving the

Cards in the Option Panel" in Chapter 3.

This figure shows the names of the icons:

7. Click Restart IIe.

Your changes don't go into effect until you restart the Apple IIe.

Your cards are now installed. However, some of the cards you've installed may