Skills."
USING YOUR CLASSic-CHAPTER 3
Basic Macintosh Skills
This chapter and the remaining six chapters in Part II provide practice using
your Macintosh. To get the most out of this practice, read the chapters in
order, and do all the numbered steps as you get to them.
This chapter reviews the information covered on the Macintosh Basics disk. If
you have completed the tour on that disk, this chapter will go quickly. If
you have not taken the tour, do so now; then return to this chapter.
Getting set
Before you start this tutorial, read the section or sections here that apply
to you to make sure your Macintosh is ready to go.
If your computer is on
If your Macintosh is turned on, you need to turn it off before you begin.
Press the bottom of the on/off switch on the back of the computer to turn the
computer off.
If the computer is off and a disk is in the drive
If your computer is off, and there is a disk in the disk drive, you need to
eject the disk, and then turn your computer off again. To eject the disk,
press the mouse button and keep it down as you press the top of the on/off
switch to turn on the computer. Keep the mouse button down until the disk
pops out. When it does, release the mouse button and switch the computer
off. You are ready to begin.
If the computer is off and no disk is in the drive
If your Macintosh computer is turned off and there are no disks in the disk
drive, you are ready to begin. Continue reading here.
If your Macintosh came with a non-Apple hard disk
If you purchased your Macintosh with an internal hard disk that is not made
by Apple Computer, you may need to prepare that hard disk for use before you
continue with learning about your Macintosh. (Apple prepares its hard disks
before they leave the factory.) If you have a non-Apple hard disk (contact
your Apple dealer or representative if you are not sure), turn to Chapter 13
in Part III of this book to prepare your hard disk. Then return to this page
and continue learning about your computer. If you have an Apple hard disk, do
not go to Chapter 13. Simply continue reading here.
Starting up the computer
This set of exercises will teach you about starting up the computer.
1. Find the disk labeled System Startup, and insert it into a disk drive.
(Do this with the computer turned off.)
As you saw when you inserted the Macintosh Basics tour disk, disks are
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