Radio Shack EC-291 User Manual

Name: Radio Shack EC-291
Brand: Radio Shack
SKU: 1288746
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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.

RadioShack is a registered trademark used by 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Code	City Name

MOW	Moscow

CAI	Cairo

HEL	Helsinki

ROM	Rome

BER	Berlin

PAR	Paris

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.

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 12or 24-hour format.

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

6.To select daylight saving time,

press DST. appears. Press DST again to turn daylight saving time off.

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).

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 CALEN/W/H TIME. The date and time of the last selected city appears.

2.Repeatedly press SEARCH or to select the city you want.

Note: Press DST to see the daylight saving time in another U.S. city you are viewing.

USING THE CALENDAR

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

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,

press SEARCH or . To move back a month, press SEARCH or .

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. You 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.

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 SPACE to enter a space.

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

•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.

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.

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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