Setting up the computer This chapter describes how to connect the components of the computer together and set it up ready for use. Before you start connecting it up, please read the Guidelines for safe operation in the front of the User Guide. After you've checked the components against the checklist in the last section, you can connect them together and begin to use your Archimedes computer. Follow these simple steps to set up your computer: 1. Connect mouse to Take the mouse and the keyboard out of keyboard their plastic bags. The mouse has a straight cable with a plug on the end of it. This goes into the socket at the back of the keyboard. The plug has an arrow moulded into it.
This should be uppermost when you push it in. The plug won't go in any other way, so don't try to force it in. 2. Connect keyboard The keyboard has a curly cable with a to computer plug on the end of it. Plug this into the socket on the front right hand side of the computer unit (just below the disc drive slot), with the arrow uppermost: don't force it. Place the keyboard in front of the computer. Setting up the computer 7