Basic Operation

Floppy diskettes may be loaded/unloaded either using the "Disks" menu or by clicking on the front panel area associated with the floppy drive. When the mouse pointer passes over a floppy drive, it will become highlighted.

To remove a floppy diskette (and leave the drive empty), open the drive dialog (as describe in previous paragraph) and check the "unmount" option and click the CANCEL button. Clicking the "Mount..." button requires a file to be selected and will replace the current disk with the selected new disk.

RESET is in the "System" menu.

Keyboard

The following keys perform the indicated functions. Other keys should function as expected. Num Lock (or Shift) is required for normal Kaypro kaypad use.

KeyFunction
EnterCarriage Return (Ctrl-M, 0DH)
Shift BackspaceDel (07FH)
Keypad "+"Kaypad "," (comma)
Keypad "*"* (asterisk)
Keypad "/"/ (slash)

Copy/Paste

Screen text copy is supported. Click and drag a portion of the screen to copy the text into your clipboard buffer. Video attributes are lost, and blanks at the ends of lines are removed. Select highlight disappears after a few seconds, but the clipboard content is not changed.

Text may be pasted to the computer using the middle mouse button. Beware that pasted text may easily overrun the computer, depending on the current CP/M or ROM version and its style of keyboard input. If the input is interrput driven, or uses a background polling scheme, then pasted text longer than the buffer length will get lost. Use a configuration file and specify paste rate/delay values to slow down the rate at which characters are pasted.