Sharp MZ-800 User Manual

3.2 Getting to Know the Keyboard
Follow the start-up procedure described in Section 2.1, your MZ-800 is ready to accept commands
typed in from the keyboard.
BASIC interpreter 12-016 VX.XX
Copyright(C) 1984 by SHARP CORP.
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Ready
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(blinking)
The blinking block-shaped marker you can see on the screen is called the cursor. When you press any
character key on the main keyboard, the cursor will move the right, with the typed character appearing
in the previous cursor position.
Press other character keys, and the characters will appear in the order in which you type them. The
cursor is always positioned to the immediate right of the character typed last, Next, press the key marked
“CR” located on the right side of the main keyboard. You will see the message ‘‘Syntax error’’ ap-
pears on the next line.
BASIC interpreter 1Z-016 VX.XX
Copyright(C) 1984 by SHARP CORP.
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Ready
ASDFGJJ
Syntax error
Ready
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The message ‘‘Syntax error’’ indicates that the computer cannot understand what you have just typed.
This is because the computer only recognizes commands from the BASIC programming language.
(Remember the BASIC interpreter?). BASIC will be explained more fully in Chapter 6, while ‘Syntax
error’’ and other error messages are listed in Appendix L. At the moment, this and the following exer-
cises don’t require you to know anything about BASIC. Now, type the following sentence from the
main keyboard.
PRINT ““ABC’’
After the closing quotation mark, press the |CR| key. The characters ‘‘ABC”’ will appear below the
sentence you just typed. The computer displays these characters in reply to the BASIC command you
entered, The command was the word ‘‘PRINT”’, which instructs the computer to redisplay the charac-
ters typed between the quotation marks.
Words in the BASIC language vocabulary which instruct the computer to perform an operation (such
as PRINT) are called commands or statements.

Sharp MZ-800 Specifications

General

Brand	Sharp
Model	MZ-800
Category	Desktop
Language	English