ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL | CP/M ENHANCEMENTS |
When all goes well, one of your drives’ “busy” light will be on and the drive should be quietly spinning waiting for a diskette. Simply oblige it by inserting your CP/M master diskette from Microsoft. (Label should be up and the last thing to go in the door.) Then close the drive door slowly. The door may require a slight amount of force, but there should be no solid resistance against its closing. If there is solid resistance, you probably haven’t inserted the diskette all the way.
Your Apple will respond by displaying the CP/M “sign on” message including Microsoft’s copyright notice. This indicates that you have just successfully “booted” CP/M (congratulations). Part of the “sign on” message will indicate that you have just booted a 44K CP/M system. This is correct, you will create a 56K system as part of these enhancement procedures. The last thing your Apple should say is “A>”. This is your prompt to enter a command. A real quick one to try for you first time CP/M users is:
DIR<RETURN>
CP/M will indulge you by displaying the files which Microsoft so nicely included with the CP/M operating system.
Enough playing, time to get back down to busi- ness. Insert the Rana Enhancer Diskette in drive B: (slot six, drive two), then type:
DIR B:<RETURN>
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