Operation Manual

Operating the TI
.
82 1-5
8201OPER.DOC TI-82, Chapter 1, English Bob Fedorisko Revised: 02/09/01 12:18 PM Printed:
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Display Cursors
In most cases, the appearance of the cursor indicates what will happen
when you press the next key.
Cursor Appearance Meaning
Entry Solid blinking
rectangle
The next keystroke is entered at the
cursor; it types over any character.
INS
(insert) Blinking underline The next keystroke is inserted in front
of the cursor location.
2nd
Blinking
#
(arrow) The next keystroke is a
2nd
operation.
ALPHA
Blinking
A
The next keystroke is an alphabetic
character.
“full” Checkerboard
rectangle
You have entered the maximum
characters in a name, or memory is
full.
If you press
ƒ
or
y
during an insertion, the underline cursor changes
to an underlined
A
or
#
cursor.
If you press
y
or
ƒ
on a screen on which there is no edit cursor
(such as the
MODE
screen or a graph),
#
or
A
appears in the upper right
corner.
Graphs and the screens for viewing and editing tables, matrices, and lists
have different cursors, which are described in the appropriate chapter.
Busy Indicator
When the TI
.
82 is calculating or graphing, a moving vertical bar shows in
the upper right of the display as a busy indicator. (When you pause a graph
or a program, the busy indicator is a dotted bar.)