Epson LT-286e 用户手册

The diskettes you use are flexible plastic, coated with a

magnetic material and enclosed in a protective plastic case.

Information is recorded in magnetic patterns on both surfaces

of the diskette. Because data is stored magnetically, you can

retrieve, record, and erase data, just as you play, record, and

erase music on cassette tapes.

When you insert a diskette in a drive, a metal shutter above the

diskette’s access area moves aside to expose the diskette surface.

When your computer reads data from or writes data to the

diskette, it causes the diskette to spin within its plastic casing.

Then the drive’s read/write head locates the appropriate

position on the diskette and performs the operation you specify.

Be sure to buy high-quality diskettes to use in your Equity

LT-286e. You can use two kinds of diskettes:

3 

 720KB, double-sided, double-density diskettes

3 

 1.44MB, double-sided, high-density diskettes.

On a 720KB diskette, you can store the equivalent of about

300 pages of text. You can store twice as much information on

1.44MB diskettes, but the 3 

 diskette drives on some

computers cannot use these high-capacity diskettes. If you are

planning to exchange data with a computer that has a 720KB

diskette drive, use 720KB diskettes in your Equity LT-286e.

If you have an external, 5 

 1.2MB (high-capacity)

diskette drive, use 5 

 double-sided, high-density

diskettes in this drive. These diskettes can hold the equivalent

of about 500 pages of text and are compatible with the high-

capacity diskette drives used on some models of the IBM AT.

The 1.2MB diskette drive can read 360KB diskettes.

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Using the Equity LT-286e