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Press the SPACEBAR a few times.
SCREEN 1
When you press the SPACEBAR , it may seem as
though the cursor moves but no character is put
on the screen. But really a character is put on the
screen- you just can t see it because it is a
blank character.
Now press and hold down the SPACEBAR for a mo-
ment until the cursor
is in the middle of the line. At
this point the first half of the line is filled with blank
characters.
SCREEN 2
Now type
ATARI COMPUTER
By pressing the SPACEBAR after the I key, you
put a space between the two words .
SCREEN 3
The SPACEBAR will also move the cursor down to
the next line. Press the SPACEBAR a few times until
the cursor is at the beginning of the next line.
SCREEN 4
WHEN YOU ARE USING A BASIC CARTRIDGE,
you can use the SPACEBAR (instead of the RETURN
key) when you simply want to move to the next line
but do not want to send a command to the com-
puter. This avoids getting an
ERROR message when
the words you 've typed are not a BASIC command.
We'll do this in some of the ex ercises that follow.
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