Nabu 50212101 User manual

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NaBu
PERSONAL
COMPUTER
USER'S
GUIDE

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Order
Number:
50212101
Edition
History:
First
Edition: November, 1982
Second
Edition: September,
1983
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1983 NABU Manufacturing Corporation.
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NABU
Personal Computer User's Guide
Contents
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Introduction
1
Unpacking Your
NABU
Personal
Computer
4
A
Quick
Tour Of Your Nabu Personal Computer
7
Making
The Right Connections
10
Number
One
17
Number
Two
19
Number
Three
21
Getting To Know Your Keyboard
23
Getting
Started
30
Using Your
NABU
Personal Computer
32
If Something
Goes
Wrong
44
How
Does This Cable
Work,
Anyway?
46
A
Computer
That Grows
With
You
49
Quality Features
In Your
NABU PC
51
NABU PC
Technical
Specifications
53
NABU
Adaptor Technical
Specifications
56
Glossary
57
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NABU Personal Computer User's Guide Introduction
INTRODUCTION
With your purchase
of
a NABU
Personal Computer
you have
just
become
part
of
a unique
system,
so simple that the whole
family can enjoy using
it,
and
so
powerful
that it encourages
all
kinds
of
applications
at home and
in
business. It is unique because
it
combines
your computer with
your local
cable
TV network. In
this way, you
and your family gain
economical
access
to and use
of
a
virtually limitless storehouse of games, business and educa-
tional programs, and
informational
services.
Relax
With
Your
NABU Personal
Computer
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Introduction NABU
Personal
Computer
User's Guide
About
This
Guide
We
have
prepared
this book
to
help
you
get the most
fun
and
full value from
the
system. In it, you
will
find
everything you need to
know about your
com-
puter to get it
working with
the cable
network.
You
will
also
learn
what you
can
do to expand
your
computer's
capabilities, and thus
your own, even
further.
After this
introductory section, we'll tell
you
how
to
identify
things
when
you've
taken them out of
the
box that
they
came
in,
and
how
to
connect
them
properly. (For
those who can't
wait, turn
to
the
section on UNPACK-
ING
YOUR
NABU
PERSONAL COMPUTER and
then
to the
section on
MAKING
THE RIGHT
CONNECTIONS.)
Following that, you
will learn
what
to
look for
and
what
to do
from
the time
you start up
your
NABU PC
until
it
tells
you it's ready to start
work for
you. (The NABU PC is the
short form
used
in this
manual for
the NABU
Personal Computer.)
Then comes
the
part
you've
been waiting
for - how
to use
your computer!
No
prior knowledge
of
computers is needed.
A
keyboard
explanation comes
first.
Then
you
learn how
to find
out
what's
available
on
Cable and
how
to
get it
into
your computer
(load it).
Just
in
case a
connector
comes loose,
or the
TV
cable
system is
disrupted,
there is a
section
in
this
book for diagnosing
problems and
doing something
about them.
After
you have
grown
comfortable
with
your computer,
played
games
to
your heart's content and sampled the
many services offered by
your
cable
company,
we
think you're
going
to become curious
about what makes
this
combination of computer
and Cable
work
the way
that it does, and what
else you
can
do
with it.
So we've included a
brief section on
the
theory of
operation,
and
another on expansion possibilities.
Finally, for the more
technically
minded, there is a
section which
lists the
special
features and
the technical specifications
of
the NABU PC and Adap-
tor,
and
another with a
glossary
of
terms.
Though
we have tried to avoid
unnecessary
computer jargon,
there are some
industry words that are
so
apt
they
are
rapidly becoming .
part
of our normal
language. We
think
you
will want to understand and use
them.
Some
of
these
terms are
explained
in
the
boxed
-in
descriptions that
appear throughout
this guide.
Instant
Help
Sticker
You
should have received a HOTLINE
number sticker when
you subscribed
to
THE NABU
NETWORK.
This
sticker
contains numbers that you
will
need
to set up and use
your
NABU PC
with THE
NABU
NETWORK.
We
suggest
that you
attach
the
sticker
to the side
of your
NABU PC, so
that
the numbers
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NABU Personal Computer
User's Guide
Introduction
are always available
when
you need them. The numbers
included
on
the
sticker
are:
A HOTLINE number
where you
can call
for assistance if
you
have dif-
ficulty with your
NABU
Personal Computer.
A CHANNEL SWITCH
SETTING which tells you which
channel
to set
your TV to before using the NABU Personal Computer.
A CHANNEL CODE which
you must
enter when
you first
start
up
your
NABU
Personal Computer
and
after any
time you lose
power
to
the
Adaptor.
We
will explain
the use
of
these
numbers again later
in
this
book.
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Unpacking
Your NABU PC
NABU
Personal
Computer User's Guide
UNPACKING
YOUR
NABU
PERSONAL
COMPUTER
The
box
and
packing material that
your
NABU PC
comes
in
have
been
designed to give
your computer
maximum protection during shipping
and
handling. Everything
fits
snugly.
DO
NOT TURN THE
BOX UPSIDE DOWN
AND
ATTEMPT
TO SHAKE THE PARTS LOOSE.
Remove the
inner box
before
lifting out
the keyboard.
This
inner box con-
tains a games
controller
and the cables to
connect the
computer.
(You may
have
received
your
games
controller in
a separate package.)
As
you
remove the pieces
from both
boxes,
identify which
is
which
by
comparing
them with
the picture
that
follows.
The NABU PC
Box
Contents
This is
what
you should find
in
the
box
labelled NABU
PERSONAL COM-
PUTER:
NABU
PERSONAL COMPUTER
USER'S GUIDE (You're reading it
now!)
Your
NABU
Personal Computer.
One keyboard.
One short cable,
with
a
circular
single
-prong
plug
at each
end.
One
long
cable,
with
a circular six -pin
plug
at each
end.
- One games
controller
(may have been
provided
separately).
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Personal
Computer User's Guide
Unpacking Your NABU
PC
The
Contents of
the
NABU PC
Box
The Adaptor
Box
Contents
You
will also have
received
a slightly smaller box. It
contains some
other
parts that
will
be needed
for your system.
These are:
One
Adaptor with power
cord.
One cable
approximately
one
meter
(three
feet) long, with a circular
single -prong plug
on each
end.
- One cable
approximately
one
meter
(three
feet) long, with
a
circular
five
-pin
plug
on each end.
Of
course, to
complete
your system
you
will
use
your own TV set
and the
cable that
now
connects
it to the cable TV outlet.
The
Contents
of the Adaptor
Box
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Unpacking
Your
NABU PC NABU
Personal Computer User's Guide
Cable
TV
and
Cables
Incidentally, to avoid
confusion
in talking about cable
TV
and
inter-
connecting cables,
from now on
we
will refer
to the "cable"
in cable
TV,
when
used by
itself, with
a
capital
C (Cable); to the
interconnect-
ing
lines as
just
cables
(with
a
small
C);
and to the
power
lines as
power
cords, (instead
of
wires
or
strings
or thingamajigs!).
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