Unit installation

You don’t need to know anything about programming for this exer-

cise. It is merely for practice. If you would rather not use BASIC, use

your word processing or business program to create a short file or

document of the type you will usually print. When you create your

file, remember that SelecType is designed for letters and numbers

rather than graphics.

If you do want to use BASIC for this exercise, simply turn on your

computer, printer, (and disk drive if you have one). Then type the

short program listed below. Only the words inside the quotation

marks will be printed. You can put anything you want there.

10 OPEN3,4

20 PRINT#3,"THE LETTERS IN THIS EXAMPLE"

30 PRINT#3,"ARE MADE UP OF TINY DOTS."

50 CLOSE3

Now, run the program by typing RUN and pressing

RETURN,

print your file or document by following the printing instructions of

your software. The HomeWriter- will print your example in stand-

ard single-strike printing, as shown below:

THE LETTERS IN THIS EXAMPLE

ARE MADE UP OF TINY DOTS.

Now that you have created a sample, follow these steps to print it in

compressed mode:

1) See that both the ON LINE light and the READY light are on.

2) Press ON LINE and FF at the same time. You hear a beep to signal

that SelecType is on.

As you see in Table 2-1, the code for compressed is four. Therefore,

press ON LINE four times. (Remember that you hear a beep each

time you press ON LINE when you are in SelecType mode).

Now that you have selected the compressed mode, push FF once to

set it.

5) Push LF once to return the panel to its standard operation.