User's Manual

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Getting Started
Precautions
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Work habits
The key to avoiding discomfort or injury from strain is to
vary your activities. If possible, schedule a variety of tasks
into your working day. Finding ways to break up the routine
can reduce stress and improve your efficiency.
❖ Take frequent breaks to change position, stretch your
muscles and relieve your eyes. A break of two or three
minutes every half hour is more effective than a long
break after several hours.
❖ Avoid performing repetitive activities for long periods.
Intersperse such activities with other tasks.
❖ Focusing your eyes on your computer screen for long
periods can cause eyestrain. Look away from the
computer frequently and focus your eyes on a distant
object for at least thirty seconds.
Precautions
❖ Avoid spilling liquids on the computer’s keyboard.
If you do spill a liquid that gets into the keyboard, turn
off the computer immediately. Leave the computer turned
off overnight to give it time to dry out before you use it
again.
❖ If a drive-in-use light indicates the drive is being
accessed, don’t turn off the computer.
Powering off the computer while it is reading from or
writing to a disk may damage the disk, the drive or both.
❖ Keep the computer and diskettes away from objects that
generate strong magnetic fields, such as large stereo
speakers.
Information on diskettes is stored magnetically. Getting a
magnet too close to a diskette can erase important files.