Apple IIe - Manual (Page 5)

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To clean the case, do the following:
Disconnect the power plug. (Pull the plug, not the cord.)
Use a water-damp, clean, soft cloth. Wipe the surfaces lightly, but do not wipe the screen of
the monitor. For cleaning the monitor screen, use only the special cloth provided and do not
moisten it.
Plug In the Apple IIe Power Cord
Now that you've read the safety instructions, you can plug in the Apple IIe power cord, but
don't turn on the power yet.
Runaway Disk Drive:
At this point your computer power switch should still be off. If you jumped the gun and turned
the Apple IIe power switch on without the right kind of disk in the disk drive, you've got a
runaway disk drive on your hands.
You can stop the whirring disk drive by holding down CONTROL
while you press RESET. When the whirring stops, turn off the power and follow the start up
instructions in the next section. (You could have stopped the disk drive just by turning off
the power, but for reasons you'll understand later, it's not a good habit to turn off the
computer while the disk drive is in gear.
If you stopped it that way this time, don't panic.
It's only a problem when there's a disk in the disk drive.)
Connecting Other Peripheral Devices
Once you've stuck your first card in a slot, and learned how to anchor cable connectors to the
back panel of the Apple IIe, installing other devices is a snap.
Just follow the installation
instructions that come with your printer, mouse, or other peripheral device, and keep these
general installation rules in mind:
Make sure the computer's power is off and that the power cord is unplugged before connecting
any device to your Apple IIe.
Make sure the bare side of the card faces the power supply (the big metal box on the left side
of the circuit board).
Install cards by rocking the card from back to front and not from side to side. Press down
firmly, but don't force it. Don't touch the gold fingers on the bottom of the card.
Put the card in the recommended slot. Unless the device's manual tells you otherwise.
When you're joining cables, make sure the pins on one connector line up with the holes on the
other connector.
If you aren't careful, you could bend a pin or force a pin into the wrong
opening and damage the connector, the peripheral, or even the computer.
Avoid putting a card in slot 3 if you have a card in the AUX. CONNECTOR slot. Slot 3 was the
80-column card slot in earlier models of the Apple II and, for purposes of software
compatibility, a card in slot 3 will override a card in the AUX. CONNECTOR slot.
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