Specifications

Software drivers, installing 88
Sound, changing volume of 61
Sound input devices, connecting
108–109
Sound input port 105, 109
Sound output devices, connecting 109
Sound output port 105, 109
Sound Volume module (Control
Strip) 61
Speakers, external 109
Spills 46
Spinning down hard disk 59, 71
Starting the PowerBook 4–5, 7, 116, 121
Startup disk
floppy disk as 129
hard disk as 129
RAM disk as 69, 75, 82
Startup Disk control panel 81
Storage folder 135
Storing documents. See Save command;
Save As command
Storing PowerBook 86
Summary of basic skills 33–42
Synchronizing PowerBook and desktop
Macintosh files 137
System error message 7
System failures 116
System Folder
backing up 130
System software 129–136
customized 135–136
damaged 133
installing 129–136
installing customized version of
135–136
installing for the first time 130–132
on a network 130
purpose of 5, 129
reinstalling 133–135
troubleshooting 133
T
Tab key 42
Temperature range 47, 86
Text
highlighting 24
typing and correcting 23
Title bar 21, 24
Tracking speed, changing 76
Trackpad
adjusting 76
button 10, 13
moving pointer with 10
position of 50
tips for using 11
Trackpad control panel 76
Transporting
batteries 85
PowerBook 85
Trash 28–29
bulging 28
deleting files with 28–29, 36
dragging items to 28
ejecting floppy disks with 40
emptying 29, 36
opening 29
recovering items from 29, 36
Trash icon 29
Traveling with PowerBook 85
Troubleshooting 115–128
application programs 128
batteries 67, 118–119
damaged PowerBook 86
disk drives and disks 122–125
external monitor 100, 122
memory 121
modems 125
networks 127
power 5, 118
PowerBook 116–118
printers 125–126
RAM disk 79
175
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