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6 Backup
The Floppy Disk Drive is used to save and restore data on a pre-formatted IBM PC
format 3.5 inch diskette.
6.1 Operation – Saving and Restoring a Show File
The Disk drive functions are accessed through the Setup Bkup (backup) menu. In this
menu there are three options:
Press Setup then open the Bkup submenu to display this menu:
Set Disk Time Date
Bup +to| +to| +to|
This menu contains 3 submenus as follows. Move the cursor to the Disk field and
press the + (On) button to open the submenu:
Set Dir File Name To From
Disk | Event Off Off
Dir The default show file name is Event. If another name has been used the
Dir field can be used to search the disk for show files. Move the cursor to
this field and press the + (On) button.
File The default show name is Event. An alternate name of up to 8 characters
can be entered when saving.
To Move the cursor to this field and press + (On) to Save a file to disk.
From Move the cursor to this field and press + (On) to Restore a show file.
from the disk.
NOTE: Do not remove the diskette while the drive light is on.
If no diskette is present in the disk drive when the DISK option is selected,
an error message will be displayed and the DISK transfer will be cancelled.
Time Date The TIME and DATE submenus are used to set the the internal clock.
The time and date are added to the disk file attributes when a show is
saved.
NOTE:Time is displayed in 24 hour mode, eg. 13:00 = 1:00pm. Use the numeric
keypad or + (On) / - (Off) button to set the correct time.