1-2 Overview of the PanelMate 500Congratulations on beginning with the Getting Started manual as the place to get familiarwith PanelMate 500. Have you glanced at the Foreword section a few pages back? Ithighlights the other documents you get with PanelMate 500, and provides handy phonenumbers you may want.We recommend that you first take 20 minutes to look at the PowerPoint-based overviewdescribed in the next section. It’s well worth the time, as a way to get the who, what,where, when and why of PanelMate 500.How to See a Great Overview of PanelMate 500Included with your configuration software is a separate group of 3 diskettes as shownbelow. When transferred to your PC, the file on the Overview diskette permits you to viewa colorful and informative “slide presentation” about PanelMate 500, presented with aMicrosoft tool called PowerPoint. If you do not have PowerPoint installed on yourWindows-based PC, a copy of the PowerPoint slide “viewer” is provided for yourconvenience. One of the diskettes is labeled “Examples”, and contains files which arereferenced in the Appendix and in the Virtual Mentor Users Guide.Here are the contents of the diskette pack:Diskette Label File Contents DescriptionPowerPoint Viewer pptview.exe “slide show” viewer softwarepptview.dllOverview over1.ppt PowerPoint-based overviewof PanelMate 500Examples (various files) communication startup files andsample configurations