Radio Shack EC-291 User Manual

Cat. No. 65-743

OWNER’S MANUAL

Please read before using this equipment.

EC-291

24K Electronic

Organizer

with Web Site

Directory

FEATURES

Your RadioShack EC-291 24K Elec­tronic Organizer with Web Site Direc­tory is a pocket-size data organizer.
It’s great for the person on the go,
combining three telephone directories,
a web site list, alarm clock, schedule
alarms, a calculator, and more in one
compact, easy-to-use package. Its
features include:

24K Memory — gives you ample
space for storing phone numbers and
schedules. Your organizer has space
for up to 480 phone directory records
(based on an 8-character name and
12-digit phone number), up to 500 32­character schedule alarm records, or
up to 633 32-character memo/to-do
records.

© 1998 Tandy Corporation.

RadioShack is a registered trademark used by

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All Rights Reserved.

Tandy Corporation.

Phone List/Web Site — puts names,

addresses, phone numbers, fax/pager
numbers, E-mail addresses, web sites
and notes at your fingertips.

Home Time/World Time — shows
you the current time in your local time
zone and in 31 other cities around the
world.

Metric Converter — lets you perform
conversions to and from metric mea­surements.

Calendar — shows weekly calendars
from January 1901 to December 2099.

Schedule Alarms — reminds you of
meetings and other important events.

Daily Alarm — sounds at a set time of
day.

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Memo/To Do — lets you keep notes
for yourself, as well as a list of things
to do.

Password — prevents unauthorized
access to your information.

10-Digit Calculator — does standard
arithmetic and memory calculations.

Currency Converter — makes it easy
to convert between U.S. dollars and
up to four foreign currencies.

Automatic Power-Off — conserves
battery power by turning off the orga­nizer after about 6 minutes of non-use.

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Important: Tandy Corporation as­sumes no responsibility for any loss or
claims by third parties that might arise
through use of this databank or for
damages incurred as a result of infor­mation loss due to malfunctions, re­pairs, battery replacement, or misuse.
You should maintain physical records
of important information to protect
against such loss.

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CONTENTS

Before You Begin .......................... 9

Removing the Insulation Strips ... 9
Turning the Organizer On and

Off ............................................. 10

Turning the Key Tone On and

Off ............................................. 11

Clock/Calendar ............................ 13

Setting/Viewing the Home

Date and Time ........................... 13

Viewing World Times ................ 20

Using the Calendar ................... 20

Web Site/Phone Lists .................. 22

Storing Web Site Records ......... 22

Storing a Phone List Record ..... 26

Memo/To Do ................................. 33

Entering a Memo File ................ 33

Entering a To Do File ................ 35

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Using Records ............................. 37

Recalling a Web Site/Phone List

or Memo/To Do Record ............. 37

Editing a Web Site/Phone List

or Memo/To Do Record ............. 39

Deleting a Web Site/Phone List

or Memo/To Do Record ............. 41

Daily Alarm ................................... 42

Setting the Daily Alarm Time ..... 43

Turning the Daily Alarm On and

Off .............................................. 45

Schedule Alarms .......................... 47

Entering a Schedule Alarm ........ 48

Turning the Schedule Alarm

On and Off ................................. 52

Recalling a Schedule Alarm ...... 53

Editing a Schedule Alarm .......... 54

Deleting a Schedule Alarm ........ 55

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The Password .............................. 57

Entering a Secret Record .......... 57

Recalling a Secret Record ........ 60

Calculator ..................................... 61

Calculations ............................... 61

Standard Calculations ............ 61

Square Calculations ............... 62

Memory Calculations .............. 63

Conversions ................................. 65

Metric Conversions ................... 65

Currency Conversion ................ 67

Care .............................................. 70

Replacing the Batteries ............. 72

Resetting the Organizer ............ 76

Resetting the Secret

Memory .................................. 76

Resetting All Memory ............. 77

Specifications .............................. 79

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BEFORE YOU BEGIN

REMOVING THE
INSULATION STRIPS

Before you can use the organizer, you
must remove the two protective insula­tion strips from inside the battery com­partment. To remove the slips, gently
pull them out.

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TURNING THE
ORGANIZER ON AND
OFF

Press ON/OFF to turn on the organizer.
Press ON/OFF again to turn it off.

To conserve battery power, the orga­nizer automatically turns off after about
6 minutes of non-use.

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TURNING THE KEY
TONE ON AND OFF

You can set your organizer so a tone
sounds each time you press a key.

With the organizer turned on, press
to turn the tone on or off. A beep
sounds. appears when the key
tone is on.

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Note: You can only turn the key tone
on or off when the display shows the
current date and time.

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CLOCK/CALENDAR

SETTING/VIEWING THE
HOME DATE AND TIME

1. Turn on the organizer, then press

PROG. The seconds digits flash.

2. Press SEARCH ∧ or ∨ until your
city’s name code appears. If your
city is not listed, use a city in the
same time zone as yours.

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Code City Name

LON London

RIO Rio de Janeiro

CCS Caracas

YYZ Toronto

NYC New York

CHI Chicago

DEN Denver

LAX Los Angeles

ANC Anchorage

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Code City Name

HNL Honolulu

WLG Wellington

NOU Noumea

SYD Sydney

ADL Adelaide

TYO Tokyo

SIN Singapore

HKG Hong Kong

BKK Bangkok

RGN Rangoon

DAC Dhaka

DEL Delhi

KHI Karachi

KBL Kabul

DXB Dubai

THR Tehran

RUH Riyadh

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Code City Name

MOW Moscow

CAI Cairo

HEL Helsinki

ROM Rome

BER Berlin

PAR Par is

3. Press . The first digit of the year
flashes.

4. Use the number keys to enter the
year, month, and date on the first
line. Then enter the current hour
and minute on the second line.

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Note: If you make a mistake,
press or to move backward
or forward to the digit you want to
change. Then enter the correct
digit.

5. Press 12/24 to set the clock to the
12- or 24-hour format.

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In the 12-hour format, AM or PM
appears. Press AM/PM to choose
AM or PM.

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6. To select daylight saving time,
press

DST. appears. Press

DST again to turn daylight saving

time off.

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7. Press ENTER to store the date
and time. The day of the week
automatically appears.

Note: If any information you enter
is invalid (for example, you enter
15 for the hour), the first hour digit
flashes after you press ENTER.
Enter the correct digit, then press

ENTER again.

If you are in another mode and want to
view the home date and time, press

CALEN/W/H TIME (calendar/world/

home time).

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VIEWING WORLD TIMES

Once you set your home time, you can
follow these steps to view the time in
31 other cities around the world.

1. Press

2. Repeatedly press SEARCH ∧ or ∨

CALEN/W/H TIME. The date

and time of the last selected city
appears.

to select the city you want.

Note: Press
saving time in another U.S. city you
are viewing.

DST to see the daylight

USING THE CALENDAR

Your organizer’s calendar can display
any month from January 1901 to De­cember 2099.

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1. Press

CALEN/W/H TIME twice. The

display shows the day of the

week, the current year and month,
and the calendar for one week at
a time. The leftmost date is Sun­day and the current date flashes.

2. To move forward or backward
through the weeks, repeatedly
press (or hold down) or .

Note: To move a month ahead,

SEARCH ∨ or . To move

press
back a month, press SEARCH ∧ or

.

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WEB SITE/PHONE LISTS

STORING WEB SITE
RECORDS

Today, more and more companies, or­ganizations, and even individuals have
sites on the world wide web. For ex­ample, the address for Tandy Corpo­ration is http://www.tandy.com
probably have bookmarks on your
home or office computer for the sites
you frequently visit. You can use your
organizer to help you remember these
addresses, so you can access them
easily from a computer anywhere you
go.

You can enter a name, web site ad­dress (URL), and note into your orga­nizer’s web site list. The name, web
site, and note can each be up to 48
characters.

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. You

The display shows 12 characters at a
time. When appears on the right
side of the record, there are more
characters to the right of the last dis­played character. Press to view the
next 12 characters. When appears
on the left side of the record, you can
press to move back.

Notes:

• Each character or digit uses 1
byte of memory. The web site list
uses an additional 9 bytes to store
and separate each record.

• Press

• Repeatedly press

SPACE to enter a space.

SYM to select a

symbol (@ – . , ’ : ? / \ % " = $ £ ¥
+ # ( ) &). To enter the symbol,
press .

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• If you make an incorrect entry,
repeatedly press to move to
the character you want to change,
then type the correct character
over the old one.

1. Press

WEB SITE/PHONE LIST.

WEB NO DATA appears if there

are no records stored.

WEB SEARCH ? appears if there

are already records stored.

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2. Press PROG. SPACE% and the
percentage of memory units avail­able briefly appear. Then NAME?
appears.

3. Enter the name. (The web site list
stores names alphabetically.)

4. Press

ENTER. WEB SITES?

appears.

5. Enter the web site address (URL).

6. Press

ENTER. NOTE? appears.

7. If you like, enter a note.

8. To store the record, hold down

ENTER until WAIT... appears.

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Note: If not enough space is available
for the record you have entered, FULL
appears. Delete phone records, memo
records, schedule alarms, or other
web site addresses to free additional
space.

See “Using Records” on Page 37 to re­call, edit, or delete a record.

STORING A PHONE LIST
RECORD

Your organizer has three phone direc­tories (TEL1, TEL2, and TEL3). Re­peatedly press WEB SITE/PHONE LIST
to use any directory.

You can enter a name, company, ad­dress, two telephone numbers, fax/
pager number, E-mail address and

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