Apple 8100/80, 8100/80AV manual

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Main K Apple Computer, Inc. Contents Page 6Using Software With Your Power Macintosh 83 7Using Stereo Audio 87 8Using Video With Your Power Macintosh 8100/80AV 95 Page Communications regulation information FCC statement Radio and television interference DOC statement VCCI statement CD-ROM drive Class 1 label Welc ome to Power Macintosh I part Setting Up Your Computer and Learning the Basics Page 1 Plugging in the computer Installing an e xpansion card Connecting a monitor Connecting the monitors power cord Page Connecting the monitor cable Page Connecting the mouse and keyboard Connecting other devices Tur nin g t he computer on Page Page Problems tu r ning on you r com p uter ? Whats next? 2 Safety instructions Page Health-related information about computer use Musculoskeletal discomfort Eye fatigue Arranging your office Avoi din g f ati gu e Whats next? 3 Macintosh Basics Part 1 Starting the tour Page Page Page Part 2 Practicing your new skills Reviewing what youve learned Page Page Page Answers to the review questions Page Practice session Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Whats next? Clues on your screen Is this the right program? Is the icon or text you want to work with selected? Is it best to start over? Tur ni ng th e computer off Page 4 Worki ng w ith icons An icon is a picture that represents something else. Selecting icons Copying icons Opening icons Moving icons Naming icons Removing items from the disk and retrieving them from the Trash Worki ng with windows A window opens when you double-click an icon. A window usually shows you whats inside an icon. Viewing the c ontents of a window Making a window active x Opening higher level folders or disks Worki ng w ith do cuments Opening and closing a document Opening a document from within a program Saving and naming documents Choosing a folder when saving a document Worki ng w ith disks Copying the contents of a disk Erasing th e contents of a disk Organizing your desktop Worki ng w ith pull-down menus Keyboar d shor tcuts in the Finder an d in directory dialog boxes II More About Your Macintosh part Page 5 Connecting Other Equipment Installing an e xpansion card Installing a card with a DAV connector in your Power Ma cintosh 8100/80AV NuBus power requirements Installing a NuBus card Page Page Page Page Page Page Expanding memory Installing oth er internal devices You r c o mp ut er at a glance P Macintosh Reference Power Ma cintosh 8100 /80 computer Power Ma cintosh 8100/80AV computer F g I Connecting hard disks and other SCSI devices Installing a device driver Setting the SCSI ID number Attaching a SCSI device Page Page Connecting a printer Connecting an additional monitor Connecting a trackball or other input device Connecting a microphone Connecting a GeoPort Telecom Adapter or modem Connecting to a high-speed network Connecting to an Ethernet network Connecting to a Token Ring network Attaching a security lock 6 Using Power Ma cintosh application programs Special memory requirements Shared libraries Using older Macintosh programs The software programs that came with your computer 7 About your computers sound ports Connecting an audio device Choosing audio input options Choosing audio output options Recording an alert soun d Connecting external stereo speakers Playing audio CDs 8 Power Macintosh 8100/80AV Example of a Macintosh system for working with video About your computers video ports The S-video input and output ports S-video connectors Adapters for c omposite vide o Page Connecting a VCR to view video images or capture frames Page Opening a video window on the screen Page Video images and memory allocation Capturing one frame of a video image Recording video movies Recording a computer presentation on videotape with voice annotation Page Page Page Using a television as a monitor Page Page Page Page Page 9 When you run into trouble Tak e yo ur tim e Start over Page Solutions to common probl ems Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 10 Do you need to install system software? Starting up from a built-in CD-ROM drive Starting up from a floppy drive Reinstalling system softwar e Page Custom installation Reinstalling the CD-ROM software Page Power Ma cintosh CD Copying system software from the disc Page Page Read this appendix for information on using the Macintosh PC Exchange program Macintosh PC Exchange at a glance Appendix Exchanging Files With DOS or Windows Using DOS-format disks on your Macintosh Creating a blank DOS-format disk Page Page Opening DOS documents on your Macintosh Opening a document from within a Macintosh program Opening a document by double-clicking its icon Assigning Macintosh pr ograms to D OS do cuments Page Recommended assignments for some widely used application programs Page Page Adding an assi gnm ent to the PC Exchange control panel Page Page Try in g o ut an assignment Editing the list of a ssignments Sharing assignment lists with other users Saving documents onto a DOS-format disk Choosing a file format Naming files for use on both Macintosh and DOS computers Viewing the c ontents of a disk on your DOS computer Index A B C D E F G H I, J K L M N O P Page Q R S Page T U V W X Y Z The Apple Publishing System