of time. The default time period is two minutes. You can change it to a time between one-half minute to five minutes, in half-minute increments. If you do not want the backlighting to be turned off at all, select no time limit so it remains on unless you turn off the computer.

After the backlighting goes off, it remains off until you press any key on the keyboard. As soon as you press a key, the backlighting comes back on.

To change the backlight period, follow these steps:

1.Press 1 to select Backlight period and press Enter. You see:

2 . 0 Minutes

* SAVE A SETTING *

2.To increase the time period, press +. To decrease the time period, press -. The time increases and decreases in half- minute increments: .5, 1.0, 1.5, etc. If you reach 5.0 and press +, the screen displays the following:

No time limit

This means that the computer will not turn the backlighting off at all.

3.After you select the time period you want, press 1 to move the cursor block to * SAVE A SETTING * and press Enter to return to the Setup menu.

Changing the serial port (RS-232C) settings

Use the Primary serial port and Secondary serial port

options to change the default parameters for the serial port(s) in your computer. If you are not using the serial port at all, you don’t need to do anything with this part of the Setup program, and you can go on to “Leaving the Setup program” below.

Setting Up Your System

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