Rose electronic Vista Mini operation manual Powering up the system, Switching from the keyboard

WARNING: Avoid routing cable near fluorescent lights, air conditioning compressors, or machines that may create electrical noise. For best quality video, when exceeding 20 feet use coax cable. Appendix A, B, and E for fur- ther cable information.

Step 3. Powering up the system

3.1Boot up each of the connected CPUs. Vista Mini emulates all key- board and mouse functions for automatic boot-up. You do not have to re-boot the CPU, if it is inconvenient. In this case you may need to issue the mode command, see page 9, to have proper keyboard communication.

Step 4. Switching from the keyboard

Your Vista Mini is now ready for operation using its default settings. Pressing the numbered switch on the front panel will switch to that computer. To take full ad- vantage of the Vista Mini features, refer to the Operation section beginning on page 8 The Operation section gives detailed information about each of the Vista Mini commands, describing its application and giving the keyboard command sequence. For your convenience, this information is summarized in the Key- board command summary on page 14. To begin switching immediately from the keyboard follow the instructions below.

4.1Press and release your keyboard’s left Control Key (<Ctrl>), then type in the computer number 1-2.

NOTE: Before entering any Vista Mini keyboard command, you must press and release the left Control Key. This activates Vista Mini to look for com- mands from the keyboard. You then have two seconds in which to start en- tering a valid command.

NOTE: When entering numeric commands, use only the numeral keys located at the top of your alpha-numeric keyboard. Numbers entered from the numeric keypad to the right will not be recognized as valid commands.

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