Saving Waveforms and Setups
TDS 500B, TDS 600B, & TDS 700A User Manual
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You can add hardcopies to the spool until it is full. When adding a hardcopy fills
the spool, the message “Hardcopy in Process—Press HARDCOPY to abort”
remains displayed. You can abort only the last hardcopy sent by pressing the
button while the message is still displayed. When the printer empties enough of
the spool to finish adding the last hardcopy, it does so and then removes the
message.
Clear the Spool. To remove all hardcopies from the spool, press SHIFT ➞
HARDCOPY MENU ➞ Clear Spool (main) ➞ OK Confirm Clear Spool
(side).
The oscilloscope takes advantage of any unused RAM when spooling hardcopies
to printers. The size of the spool is, therefore, variable. The number of hardco-
pies that can be spooled depends on three variables:
The amount of unused RAM
The hardcopy format chosen
The complexity of the display
Although not guaranteed, usually about 2.5 hardcopies can be spooled before the
oscilloscope must wait to send the rest of the third copy.
To send hardcopies to a floppy disk, do the following steps:
1. Set up the oscilloscope communication and hardware parameters as outlined
in To Set Up for Making Hardcopies on page 3–127.
2. Insert a formatted 720 Kbyte or 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk into the slot at the
left of the oscilloscope display.
NOTE. To format disks, delete hardcopy files you save to disk, and otherwise
manage the disk storage, see Managing the File System on page 3–121.
3. Press SHIFT ➞ HARDCOPY MENU ➞ Port (main) ➞ File (side) to
specify that any hardcopy made be output to a file on the floppy drive. The
file list and its scrollbar will appear.
4. Turn the general purpose knob to place the scroll bar over the file in which to
store the hardcopy.
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