Owner`s manual

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in the monitor.
industry specific software: Programs designed for a particular audience doctors, lawyers,
marine biologists.
information service: A large data base that you can subscribe to for news, stock quotes, and
other services.
initialize: To prepare a disk so the computer can store information on it. Another word for
format.
input/output: Abbreviated I/O. Refers to the means by which information is sent between the
computer and its peripheral devices.
integrated circuit: Networks of microfine wire that conduct electrical impulses. They are
etched on silicon wafers and embedded in black plastic.
integrated software: A group of application programs, usually on one disk, designed to share
data.
interface: Hardware or software that links the computer to a device.
interface card: See peripheral card.
interpreter: A program that translates the English-like terms in a programming language like
BASIC into a form the computer can understand. Compare compiler.
inverse characters: Inverse means opposite. If characters ordinarily show up as white
characters on a black screen, inverse characters would show up as black characters on a white
screen.
jacket: A square of plastic that protects a flexible disk. You don't remove the jacket (and
expect to ever use the disk again). Compare envelope.
joystick: An accessory that moves creatures and objects in game programs.
K: Short for kilobyte. It's how computer memory is measured. The Apple IIe has 64K of RAM
(random-access memory) expandable to 128K with an extended 80-column card, and 16K of ROM
(read-only memory). One K is equal to 1024 bytes.
keyboard: Your way of communicating with the computer. It looks like the keyboard on a
typewriter, but programmers can make the keys do anything they want them to.
keypad: See numeric keypad.
kilobyte: A measurement of computer memory. One kilobyte equals
1024 bytes, and it takes one byte to make one character.
label: A strip of paper you stick on a flexible disk to identify it. The label is a good
place to put your thumb when you pick up your disks.
LEFT-ARROW: A key you can use (in most programs) to move the cursor one character to the left.
In some programs, pressing LEFT-ARROW erases characters to the left as the cursor moves to the
left.
LET: An Applesoft BASIC command used to define variables.