Color Computer 3 Extended Basic Tandy Quick Reference Guide - Tandy Corporation - Third - 1986 - Paperback - Tandy Corporation

Color Computer 3 Extended Basic Tandy Quick Reference Guide Paperback

TO OUR CUSTOMERS

Your Color Computer 3 is more powerful and more versatile than most mammoth computers of twenty years ago. Although those metal giants filled huge, glass-walled rooms and cost millions of dollars, they couldn't sing or cipher half as well as your Color Computer can now in your own living room.

Despite its power and complexity, your computer is simple to operate. You alone determine how "technical" a machine you want it to be.

At the simplest level of operation, all you have to do is plug in a Tandy Program Pak to make the Color Computer 3 obey your every whim. Each ROM cartridge you install gives your machine the "memory" of a genius ... in accounting, in alien-zapping games, in record-keeping, or in whatever you choose. You're the master. (If you want to start using your Color Computer right away, this booklet contains all the information you'll need for Program Pak operation.)

At a slightly more advanced level, you might want to write your own programs and make your computer the most responsive and important tool in your home. Even if you're a beginner, you'll find programming is easy and fun when you follow the instructions in the BASIC programming manual that comes with your Color Computer. As you gradually gain control of the computer (and all its power), you'll discover that computing is as rewarding as it is enjoyable.

If, however, you already know BASIC, and especially if you've used another Tandy model, simply read this operation manual; then use the Quick Reference Guide to get right down to programming. (The Color Computer 3 has many features not found on other Tandy computers, as well as some important differences. A few minutes spent with the Quick Reference Guide before you press (ENTER) could save you hours later on.)


CONTENTS
Welcome to Color!

Installation
That's a Switch
Aerial Acrobatics
Monitor Connections
Connection of Other Accessories
Connection to an AC Power Source

Operation
Adjustments for All
Power Play
Get RESET ... Go
A Turn-off

The Keyboard

Using the Display
Getting Out of Prism
Journey to the Center of Your Screen
Sound and Safe

Program Pak Installation

Using the Joystick Controllers

Using the Cassette Recorder
Making the Right Connections
Copy Right Protection
Error Conditioning

Troubleshooting and Maintenance
Medicine for the Melancholy
Current Events
Remember the Maintenance

Specifications

and much, much More