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Chapter 4
- Getting Started
4.3.1 Scrolling Help Topics and Text
Press the
PRE VTOPIC
or
NEX TTOPIC
soft keys to scroll the Help screen window up or down,
respectively, to a new subtopic. Alternately, you may use the Up a nd Dow nArrowkeys to scroll th
help text a line at a time in the desired direction.
4.3.2 Help Menu
The
HELP MENU
soft key displays the menu of available help topics (see F igure4-5). Use th
Arrow keys to select a topic; press
SHOW HELP
to display help text about that topic.
Figure 4-5. Help Menu Screen
4.3.3 Exiting the On-line Help
Press the
EXIT HELP
soft key to quit the help facility and resume operations.
4.4 Printer and Disk Drive
The 8500C/C+ contains a 3.5-in. disk drive and thermal printer within the main unit (see Fig ure3-1 on
page 3-2).
4.4.1 Printer
The printer is a thermal dot-matrix printer capable of creating hard-copy reproductions of the current
LCD window. Printing can be initiated by pressing the
PRINT
key (see Section 4.2.3.11 “PRINT Key”
on pa ge4-9).
4.4.2 Disk Drive
The 8500C/C+ disk drive uses double-sided, double-de nsity (720KB) 3.5-in. diskettes. The 8500C/
C++ disk drive accepts, in addition to 720 KB diskettes, High-Density 1.44 MB diskettes. It can read
and write any diskettes that have been formatted on a personal computer (PC) running PC- or
MS-DOS, Versio n3.2 or later or the MicroSoft Windows
TM
Operating System . Diskettes are used to
store aircraft chart information as well as spectral and balance data acquired by the instrument.
Diskettes may be freely interchanged between the 8500C/C+ and appropriately configured PCs. This