Switching applications

Once the power is off, you can start up another application by putting the application program disk in the startup drive and turning on the power, just as you did when you started up the training disk. But you don't have to turn off the computer's power to switch applications. There's a better way (better for the power switch and the circuitry inside the computer). Instead of turning off the power switch and exchanging program disks, do this:

  1. Choose the application's Quit option, but don't turn off the computer's power.
     
  2. Push in on the disk drive eject button, remove the last application program disk you were using, and insert the one you want to use next.

Pressing the key with the triangle on it, in conjunction with other keys, reset or restarts the computer. For this reason, and because it is labeled "reset" on other models of the Apple II, this key is called the Reset key.


3. Hold down Open Apple and Control while you press Reset. (See Figure1-9.) Then release all three keys, starting with Reset.

If it seems awkward, you're doing it right! If it were more convenient, you might press the keys by accident and restart you application, losing everything stored in memory up to that point.

From now on, when a procedure calls for you to hold down one or two keys while you press another, the keys will be shown joined with hyphens


(for example, Open Apple-Control-Reset).
Figure 1-9 Restarting
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