The Incredible Stretching Machine xiii

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The naked circuit board xiii
Stretching your machine xiv
Road map to the manuals xv

Meet Your Apple IIGS 1

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Software 3
Care of disks 3
Peripheral devices 4
Put disk in drive 8
Turn on monitor 8
Turn on computer 8
Problems? 9
Eject disk 10
Restarting 11
Control Panel menu 13
Clock display 14

Once Over Lightly 17

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Application takes over 18
40-column display 20
Different kinds of documents 21
Document is bigger than screen 22
If power goes off, document is lost 22
Saving a document 23
Formatting a disk 23
Another reason for a backup copy 24
Saving a revised document 24

The Mouse and the Keyboard 29

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Pointing 30
Clicking 31
Dragging to select 32
Menu 33
Choosing a command 34
Insertion point 35
Inserting text 36
Deleting text 37
Cutting text 38
Pasting text 39
Parts of a window 40
Main menu 43
Overlapping menus 44
Arrow substitutes 45
An errant Return character 47
Keyboard 52

Saving Documents 55

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Two ways to organize documents 59
Pathname 60
What the disk operating system does 62
Disk operating system is shown on label 63

Application Programs 67

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Lots of applications 68
Computer as a word processor 70
Computer as a record keeper 71
Records and fields 72
Computer as number cruncher 73
Spreadsheet 74
Computer as switchboard 75
Computer as canvas 79
Computer as teacher 80
Computer as entertainer 85
Computer as instrument 86

Peripheral Devices 93

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Ports and slots 94
Serial ports 95
Printer 97
Print samples 98
What the modem does 100
Monitor 100
Disk drive 102

The Control Panel Program 108

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Gateway to the Control Panel Program 109
Desk Accessories menu 110
Control Panel Program Main Menu 111
Control Panel Program display 112
Control Panel Program overview 113
Choosing color of text, background, and border 116
Changing volume 117
Dvorak keyboard layout 119
Slots and ports 122
Activating slots or ports 123
Standard port settings 126

Troubleshooting 132

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Mouse Belly 138

Apple II Family Differences 149

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Slots and ports 152
Apple II Plus 154
Apple IIe 154
Apple IIc 155
Apple IIGS 155

Apple IIGS Features and Specifications 156

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Main circuit board 158
Back panel 158
Printer and modem port pin-outs 161
Game port pin-outs 162
Disk drive port pin-outs 162
RGB video port pin-outs 163
Apple Desktop Bus pin-outs 163
Internal game connector pin-outs 164