Olympia People User manual

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Introduction
Design and Contents of Guide
How to Use This Manual

Introduction
In t r odu c ti o n
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This is the User Installation and
Training Guide for the PEOPLE
Personal Microcomputer. It is
designed to explain everything
you need to know in order to use
the PEOPLE. We have made
every effort to describe things in
easy-to-understand terminology.
The Guide is divided into five sec
tions plus an appendix. Read
these sections in the suggested
order, and you will be ready to
begin using whatever software
you purchased for your particular
application—word processing, ac
counting, data management, etc.
The NOTES include helpful hints,
warnings and other useful infor
mation to keep you on the right
track while proceeding. Screen
messages are in an easily
recognizable typeface to keep you
in synch with the PEOPLE Per
sonal Microcomputer as you work
through the manual.
Section 1 is an overview of
PEOPLE’S hardware components.
Section 2 contains installation
and hook up procedures.
In Section 3 you will learn how to
start up the system in order to
begin working with your applica
tion package. This section also
contains information on handling
diskettes.
The CP/M-86 operating system
is described in Section 4, as well
as some of the command pro
grams offered in the operating
system.
Section 5 contains test
programs.
The Appendix includes code
tables, tables with the standard
abbreviations for ASCII charac
ters, technical data and a list
of accessories and consumer
products.
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People System Overview
• General Information
• Components
• Main Unit
• Keyboard
• Display

People System Overview
In t r od uc t io n
The first section of the User
Guide gives you an overview of
the basic hardware configuration
of the PEOPLE Personal Micro
computer. This overview will
enable you to:
• Recognize some of the many
benefits of the PEOPLE
Personal Microcomputer
• Identify the components of the
PEOPLE Personal Micro
computer
• Learn how they work together
G e n e r a l
Information
The Olympia PEOPLE Personal
Microcomputer is a powerful
16-bit computer for data and text
processing jobs in small,
medium-size and large com
panies.
PEOPLE offers solutions to
business professionals, small
business owners and corporate
management executives. The
PEOPLE Personal Microcomputer
can solve problems in the areas
of accounting, word processing,
law and the medical profession,
among others. In the business
realm the processing speed of
the 16-bit PEOPLE achieves high
throughput and therefore, quick
response times. In the technical
and scientific area, extensive
calculations can be carried out
quickly. Here are the principal
advantages:
PEOPLE brings electronic data
processing directly to the
workplace.
PEOPLE furnishes managers
immediately with all important
technical information.
PEOPLE makes a direct exchange
of information possible within the
company.
PEOPLE significantly reduces
turnaround times in preparing
financial statements, general
ledgers and many other account
ing applications.
PEOPLE offers scientific infor
mation possibilities with decen
tralized information processing.
The well-coordinated range of
memory sizes, diskette and hard
disk capacities and the flexible
expansion possibilities allow you
to continually adapt PEOPLE to
your new demands and growing
amounts of data.
The modular concept of PEOPLE
offers the advantage of expan
sion and adaptation through
direct assembly at the work
station.
The total software of the micro
computer functions under the
control of an operating system.
The CP/M-86 operating system
comes standard with PEOPLE.
Programs can be generated in
the programming languages
CBASIC, Pascal and COBOL.
The number of programming
languages which can be imple
mented is being continuously
expanded.
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