Customer Setup of the NCR PC-8. - THE CORE MEMORY

TABLE 15 (continued)End TimeH: M: S Activity10:20 I Totaltry to get DOS again. turn off machine again. turn onagain. what is the purpose of the disk? is there anything inthe doc about this disk. congratulations.try control break. terminate batch job? yes, works. returnsto DOS.use dir command to find out what's on disklook at autoexec.bat and mcbat files. c.an't find mcbat. is ita new DOS command? check documentationrename autoexec file to avoid start-up problemcheck if software now works, turn machine off, then turn on.explain to Don why file renamed.the rnost time-consuming of the software-related activities observed. (See Table 17.)Hidden in the task sequence is the considerable time the users spend deciding how the harddrive should be organized and typing in the commands (often erroneously). Thedocurnentation gives little advice on directory organization, and it is something new usersknow little about. Finally, it is assumed that users know about the "prompt" command,which few users do.