Toshiba 3500 Personal Computer User 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.