Commodore 1541-II - Safety Rules for Removing Diskettes; Loading a Packaged Program

SAFETY RULES FOR REMOVING DISKETTES
Always remove diskettes before turning a drive off or on. If a diskette were in place
and the door closed at power on or off, you could lose part or all of the data on that
diskette.
Similarly, do not remove a diskette from its drive when the green drive activity light is
on! That light only glows when the drive is actually in use. Removing the diskette with it
on may result in your losing information currently being written to the diskette.
LOADING A PACKAGED PROGRAM
To use prepackaged BASIC programs available on diskette, here is the procedure:
After turning on your computer system, carefully insert the preprogrammed diskette
as described on the previous page. For purpose of demonstration, use the Test/Demo
diskette included with the disk drive. The following commands will load a program from
the diskette into the computer:
BASIC 2:
LOAD "program name",device number,relocate flag
Example: LOAD "HOW TO USE",8
BASIC3.5:
DLOAD "program name",Ddrive #,Udevice number,relocate flag
Example: DLOAD "HOW TO USE"
After each command press the RETURN key
In both cases the exact name of the program wanted is placed between quotation
marks. D rive # is optional.
Next is the device number of your disk drive which, unless you change it, is always 8
on the 1541. If you have more than one drive however, you will need to change the device
number on any additional drive (see Appendix A for instructions on setting a drive's
device number).
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