Getting Started with Sports Master

Your ABC Sports Sports Mas- ter can settle your sports argu- ments and answer your sports questions. It contains thousands of files of information, but it's

BIOS

FACTS & STATS HIGHLIGHTS RULES STADIUM FINDER

Quick Tip:

Pressing the BACK button at any time takes you to the former level. Holding down the BACK button will take you back to the main menu.

easy to navigate. After inserting new batteries, press the RESET to turn the unit on. Your LCD will display the following message in three successive screens:

WELCOME TO

EXCALIBUR

ELECTRONICS’

ABC SPORTS

SPORTS

MASTER

SOME INFO (C) 2004

WORLD ALMANAC EDU

GROUP, INC. ALL

RIGHTS RESERVED

Then your screen will automat- ically display the main menu of Sports Master:

TRIVIA

SET UP

Note: If the characters on the screen seem uncomfortably small, skip to SET UPto change the dis- play to expanded text.

Your ABC Sports Sports Master holds thousands of sports facts! The headings on the main menu are your keys to finding what you want fast. Press the UP or DOWN key to scroll through your choices. As you scroll, an arrow on the left marks your posi- tion in the list. After scrolling to the desired item, simply press ON/ENTER to confirm your choice.

To give you an overview of the possibilities, let’s take a quick look at each of the categories on the main (or home) menu.

Bios

BIOS are a source of brief biographical sketches on famous sports personalities. Selecting BIOS gives you a choice of six popular sports and a “QUICK REFERENCE” file. The six sports files are all organized in the same way and Sports Master makes it easy to find what you want. For example, if you select BASEBALL, you will see a screen of names, organized with last names first:

AARON, HANK

ABRAMS, CAL ALEXANDER, GROVER ALLEN, MEL

Since the file contains a long list of names, you can use the built-in ABC function to quickly arrive at

ABC MODE

ON

Now pressing either the UP or DOWN key will jump alphabeti- cally from one first letter to the next. Because going “UP” will arrive at the “T's” first, you could press the UP key five times to get to this screen:

TERRY, WILLIAM HAROLD THORPE, JIM

TINKER, JOE TURNER, CLYDE

Only 18 characters per line can appear on the LCD at one time. Therefore, TERRY, WILLIAM HAROLD, will not in its entirety appear on the screen at once. Instead the line of text will auto- matically scroll from right to left when you place the cursor to the

Quick Tip:

Holding down the UP or DOWN key will advance you quickly through a data file.

the letter you want. Suppose you are interested in information on the great Jim Thorpe. You could press the ABC key. The screen will briefly display:

left of that line. (To control the speed of right-to-left scrolling, see “SET UP,” on page 13.)

Press the ABC key again. You'll see this message:

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Excalibur electronic A04 manual Getting Started with Sports Master, Bios

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