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Amstrad Notepad Computer User Manual

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The Amstrad Notepad Computer user manual is Amstrad plc's owner's book for the Amstrad NC100 Notepad. The hosted scan has 245 PDF pages with an OCR text layer, a hotline-support sticker on the front cover, and printed page numbers that start at 1 on PDF page 7. No printing date appears on the scanned pages; the examples on screen use dates in 1992 and 1993.

Contents

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  • Setting up (pp. 1–4): unpacking, the white plastic film to pull out of the underside, fitting the four AA cells, the power key, the brightness control on the right-hand edge, setting the clock, using the mains adaptor
  • A tour of the word processor, calculator, diary, alarms, address book and secret information
  • Powering the Notepad (p. 43): AA cells, NiCd cells, the lithium backup cell and its replacement, low-battery messages
  • Switching off, automatic power-off and switching on (p. 44)
  • Memory cards (p. 47)
  • Secret information, passwords and resetting the Notepad (pp. 58–60)
  • Reference chapters on the word processor, printing, serial transfers and BBC BASIC

What it settles

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  • Battery life: about 35 to 40 hours on alkaline LR6 cells and about 5 hours on NiCd cells (p. 43).
  • The lithium backup cell is a CR2032 with an estimated life of five years, and is to be changed with good alkaline cells fitted or the adaptor connected (p. 43).
  • Only the supplied mains adaptor is to be used (p. 4).
  • The reset: switch off, hold Function, Stop and ←Del and switch on; it erases the Notepad's memory but not a memory card (p. 60).
  • Serial transfers drain the batteries faster than normal use (p. 109).

What it does not contain

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There is no circuit diagram, parts list, specification table or service information. Böhling's community teardown, Amstrad NC100 Surgical Guide, covers the board. The NC150 and NC200 are not covered.

Pages that cite this document

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Download: Amstrad Notepad Computer User Manual.pdf

Source: Internet Archive, nc100.


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