Owner`s manual

Note: If the file was deleted using the Option-x-Clear File com-
mand, the data is not recoverable.
■ INSTALLING THE MAC “Y” CABLE
You may use any Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) cable to transfer
data from the AlphaSmart to the Macintosh—no special cable is
usually needed.
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For convenience, however, we offer an option-
al “Y” cable that makes connecting and disconnecting an
AlphaSmart even easier. We suggest installing the “Y” cable
between your keyboard and its ADB cable, as shown in Figure 1.
To install the “Y” cable, first disconnect your Macintosh
keyboard from the computer. Insert the trunk of the “Y”
cable into the empty ADB port on the keyboard.
Figure 1. Installing the Mac “Y” Cable
Plug the short leg of the “Y” cable into your original keyboard
cable. The remaining cable leg will be used to connect your
AlphaSmart to the Macintosh when you want to transfer text.
To install the “Y” cable with a M2980 keyboard (which has a
permanently attached ADB cable), first unplug your mouse
from your keyboard. Insert the trunk of the “Y” cable into the
empty ADB port in the middle back of the keyboard. Plug
your mouse into the short leg of the “Y” cable (see Figure 2).
The remaining cable leg will be used to connect your
AlphaSmart to the Macintosh when you want to transfer text.
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To move between files, press the F1/File 1 key to go to File 1,
the F2/File 2 key to go to File 2 and so forth, up to F8.
Text entered into each AlphaSmart file will remain there
until you explicitly erase it by pressing the Clear File key
when the AlphaSmart is not attached to a desktop computer.
Note that when you press the Clear File key, you are clearing
only the file in which you are currently working; other files
will remain unchanged.
Once the Clear File key is pressed and file is deleted, infor-
mation may still be recovered using the Data Recovery com-
mand described below. However, for confidential files which
you wish to erase without the ability to recover, you may
press Option-
x-Clear File. This command writes 0 (zeros) to
the entire file. Use this command with care.
■ DATA RECOVERY
If you accidentally clear a file, it can still be recovered as
long as no text has been entered into that file yet. Open the
file you wish to recover by pressing one of the F1–F8 keys.
Press Option-
x-R to activate the AlphaSmart Data Recovery
command.
The Data Recovery command restores the end-of-file marker to
the same position it was when the file was last cleared (by
pressing the Clear File key). So if you accidentally clear a file,
Option-
x-R will un-clear it.
If Option-
x-R, the Data Recovery command, fails to recover
the data, try pressing Ctrl-Option-
x-R. This is the Recover
40 Characters command. Each time you press this command
it will move the end-of-file marker back 40 characters. Press
this command repeatedly until you see all of your text, plus
some garbage. Then hold the delete key down until the
garbage characters are deleted.
You may also try pressing Shift-Ctrl-Option-
x-R to recover
the entire file. Scroll down to the end of your text where the
garbage characters start and press
x-Delete to erase from the
cursor to the end of the file.
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The Mac “Y” cable is required when connecting to a Macintosh with
an “Apple Design Keyboard,” model #M2980, since this keyboard has
an attached ADB cable and only one ADB connector.