Radio Shack 4 - Start-Up; Trsdos; Commands and Utilities

Start-Up
Make sure all
floppy disk
drives are empty and all equip-
ment is
off.
1
.
Turn
on all peripheral equipment (such
as a printer),
except
the hard disk.
2. Hard disk
users: Turn
on the primary hard disk drive.
3.
Turn on the computer.
4. Insert
a system diskette into Drive
and close the
drive
door. TRSDOS
displays its start-up message.
5. TRSDOS
prompts you for the
date.
Enter
it in the
mm/dd/yy
format.
6. The
following
system prompt will
appear
on your
screen:
TRSDOS
Ready
Now,
you
can
type in a TRSDOS
command.
7.
To start
BASIC,
type:
BASIC
(ENTER)
and
you see
the BASIC
prompt:
Ready
represents
a value that
you supply.
Information within
brackets
is optional.
Now,
you can type in a BASIC
command.
This Quick
Reference
Guide is
divided into two
sections:
TRSDOS and
BASIC.
Information
which
is non-shaded
(like this)
pertains to:
•
TRSDOS
intermediate
commands
and utilities
•
BASIC
statements
Information
which is shaded
like
this pertains to:
•
TRSDOS
advanced
commands
and utilities
•
BASIC functions