Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product AS 2000 Alphasmart
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1 AlphaBeam for PC Description AlphaBeam™ is a software applicat io n you install on you r computer that lets you beam text from your IR-capable Al phaSmart device to an IR-capable computer . AlphaBeam sends text using industry -standard in frared ( IrDA®) communica tions.
2 Installing AlphaBeam AlphaBeam is available as a download from the AlphaSmart web site, as an application o n its own CD, or as a supple mental application on various other Alph aSmart product CDs. For serial IR pod users T o install AlphaBeam with a serial IR pod from AlphaSmar t: 1.
3 For USB IR pod users Wa r n i n g ! Do not plug the USB IR pod into your computer be fore you inst all AlphaBea m on your computer . Wait until the install ation finishes and you restart your compu ter before plugg ing the USB IR pod in to a USB port on your comp uter .
4 4. On your computer , open the file t o which you want to send the text (it can be a new fi le or a file that already has content), an d place your cursor where you wa nt the text to begin. This should be the last thing you do befor e going to step 5.
5 4. Double-click Add a new device, th en select Select hardware from a list and click Next. 5. Select Infrared Devices from th e list of hardware types. 6. Select ACT iSYS from the list of Manufacturer s, then sele ct the ACT iSYS IR-220 L Serial Infrared Device.
6 Infrared tr oubleshooting for AlphaBeam This section describes specia l steps for those usin g a serial IR pod on Windows 95, 98, NT , 2000, or XP . (Windows Me is not com pat ible with the serial IR po d.) T est circle testing my CO M port doesn’t turn red.
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