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Fonts
Berkeley Softworks offers a range of fonts from which you can choose.
Font files, which appear on the
deskTop, can be copied to your customized
work disks. Once you open an application, the first six fonts that appear on
the
deskTop will be displayed as menu options in the application's font
menu.
Disk Drives and the RAM Expansion Unit
GEOS is designed to read the contents of your disk from a disk drive,
which is a special device you hook up to your computer. Disk drives vary
in the type of disks they accept, how much storage they allow, and the speed
with which they operate programs.
This GEOS program uses the
1541 and 1571 Commodore disk drives, as
well as the
RAM Expansion Unit (REU). These disk drives are described
fully in Chapter
3, "The deskTopV. The types of disks you can use with
GEOS are
5 114 inch floppies. The 1541 disk drive accepts single sided
disks with
165K; the 1571 disk drive accepts both single sided and double
sided disks
(33 1K). Other GEOS products support the 1581 disk drive.
The REU does not physically accept disks;
to use it you need to copy the
contents of a disk drive to it. When finished working with files on the REU,
copy them back to their original work disks. Once you
turn off the com-
puter, the contents of the
REU are lost. However, the advantages of using
an REU are that it enables you
to run programs much faster than with an
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