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- **Press release
- **March 6, 1995
- **From SCHAUZMOLL Soft
- **File attached: MAINDESK.PI3 (Logon window)
- USEREDIT.PI3 (User Editor window)
- FILE2SND.PI3 (Files To Send window)
- MSG2SEND.PI3 (Messages To Send window)
- MENU.PI3 (Main Menu: one of 3 main sections)
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- ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF: ORBIT System TIMS
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-
- ORBIT System
- Tele-Information Manager
- Station & Satellite
- Version 1.00
- by
- Christian Ernst
- (C)1993,94,95 SCHAUZMOLL soft.
- All rights reserved
-
-
- After almost two years of development, SCHAUZMOLL Soft is
- now ready to introduce you to the next level of Atari computer
- tele-communication. The ORBIT System TIMS is a fully
- multi-tasking communication system with a Graphic User Interface
- offering a multitude of features not available in any other Atari
- 'BBS' software. Hold on to your mouse and get ready to step into
- a higher Orbit!
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-
- The SysOp side: No, it's NOT a "BBS" program...
-
- The ORBIT System Station allows you to operate a
- tele-communication system with up to 4 phone lines using an Atari
- TT030 computer. System users will be able to access integrated
- message bases, file sections, FAX stations, data bases,
- electronic magazines, surveys, CD-ROM, Buy&Sell sections or
- simple ASCII texts in a way that makes it easy to locate and
- process information. The system also offers a feature that makes
- it possible to charge a fee for accessing certain information,
- this fee is then substracted from a user account. An On-line
- ordering system is also available, you can insert lists of
- products that users can order, and the system will then produce an
- invoice for that order, as well as letting you know when stocks are
- low. On-board alarm system for your house is also included, it
- can be hooked up to an already existing system or used as your
- new home alarm system connected to the joystick port 1 of your
- computer. Another exotic feature is the ability to connect many
- ORBIT Systems together and enable real time chat between the
- systems' phone lines. Users connected to different lines at the
- same time can Cut & Paste using the standard Atari clipboard via the
- ORBIT Station, making it possible for 2 users to work on the same
- Atari Works Document together and at the same time. FAX's can be
- generated and sent by the Station with the help of the STraight
- FAX! FAX program. A user just has to send a STraight FAX!
- compatible file and the Station will instruct STraight FAX! to
- convert and send it according to the time, date and phone number
- selected. A cover page is automatically generated for greater
- user friendliness. A special feature called "Commercials" lets
- SysOps sell advertising time on their Station. Those
- commercials are made up of texts and/or images that are displayed
- to on-line users for a certain amount of time (like on TV!). All
- this in a multi-tasking, user friendly, fully GEM environment.
-
- This software is made up of about 200 separate short programs
- that are capable of running at the same time - about 70 of those
- programs run in their own separate GEM window ... in fact
- everything in Orbit runs in a window: from the Quit Box to the
- User Editor. The only way you can see an alert box is by reaching
- the maximum number of windows your system can open. If you run
- the Station under Geneva you can have 74 open windows on your
- desktop (if you have a desktop this big!) None of the ORBIT
- System windows will freeze the computer, and you'll always be
- able to access the menu bar, your accessories or launch another
- program while running the ORBIT System TIMS under Geneva.
-
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- The User side: Yes, it's like a real program!
-
- The ORBIT System Satellite is very user friendly ... in fact,
- it's so user friendly that you will never need a manual to learn
- how it works. If you do something wrong the Satellite will
- alert you and tell you how to fix it right away. There is also
- very extensive on-line help. Message posting and recovery can all
- be automatically done without user supervision. There is an
- off-line message reader and off-line library catalog. The message
- editor lets you print your message using GDOS or SpeedoGDOS.
- There is background file transfer for downloading or uploading
- while you are doing something else on the Station (like reading
- messages). The Satellite can not only be used to call an ORBIT
- Station but it can also communicate with another ORBIT Satellite
- to transfer files, chat or cut&paste using the Atari clipboard.
- It will also just sit there and wait for an ORBIT Station or
- Satellite to call and transfer files or E-mail without user
- supervision. Archiving is also very simple with ORBIT. You can
- send a FAX even if you do not have a FAX modem, just send a file
- to the nearest ORBIT Station offering the FAX service!
-
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- ORBIT System TIMS Specifications
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-
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- Maximum Station capacity:
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- - 4 phone lines
- - 1000 users
- - 200 message bases
- 50000 messages (total)
- - 200 libraries
- 50000 files (total)
- - 200 data bases
- 50000 records (total)
- - 200 Magazines
- - 200 Survey
- - 200 Buy&Sell sections
- 20000 items (total)
- - 200 CD-ROM sections (with automatic CD-ROM detection)
- - 1000 pending FAX files
- - 4 separate online ordering systems
- 1000 items or products (total)
-
- Station System requirements:
- ----------------------------
-
- - This software is heavily protected against piracy. It will
- dial a phone number in Quebec City, Canada 6 times per year
- and YOU MUST AGREE TO PAY ALL resulting long distance
- charges. The call will last 30 seconds only but most phone
- companies have minimum charges of one minute.
- - You will never know when those calls will be made and they
- must all be completed successfully without interruption.
- This is the only way the program will run without
- interruption.
- - When the calls take place you have the option to
- automatically download the latest version of the Orbit
- software for auto-installation...
-
- - 4 phone lines system requires a Atari TT030 computer
- - 3 phone lines system requires a Atari MEGA STE computer
- - 1 phone line system can use any Atari computer
-
- - The computer must have 2 megabytes of memory (4 recommended)
- - A hard disk with at least 20 megs of free space
- - A FAX modem (if you want to use FAX Stations)
- - STraight FAX! communication software version 2.00 or up
- (if you want to use FAX Stations)
- - Geneva (if you want to use FAX Stations and other features)
- - GDOS or SpeedoGDOS (if you want graphic fonts)
- - A printer (for printing invoices, messages, ect...)
- - Monochrome or color monitor
- - A mouse!
- - Geneva is strongly recommended but not required
- - A good graphic accelerator (Warp9 or NVDI) is recommended
- but not required.
-
-
-
- Satellite System requirements:
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- - Any Atari computer with 1 megabyte of memory (2 recommended)
- - A hard disk (if you want to use all available features)
- - A modem (high speed recommended but not required)
- - GDOS or SpeedoGDOS (if you want graphic fonts)
- - A printer (for printing messages, etc ... )
- - Color or monochrome monitor
- - A mouse!
- - Geneva is strongly recommended but not required
- - The TIM Satellite is shareware. The registered version
- has no limit in the off-line message reader and catalog.
-
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- ** The ORBIT System TIMS will be available in April 1995.
- The price for a license is 199.95$
- It comes with a 25 page manual,
- cables and interface for the alarm system,
- ORBIT mouse pad and T-shirt,
- one year subscription to TOM (The Orbit Magazine),
- a collection of useful programs and files.
- In Canada and the continental USA you also get 30 minutes
- of free long distance phone help.
-
- * Price and specifications subject to change without notice
-
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- ** To get more information contact:
-
- SCHAUZMOLL Soft.
- c/o Christian Ernst
- 5550 Guy avenue
- Charlesbourg, QC
- Canada
- G1H 4L5
-
-
- Voice phone: (418) 623-3878
- Data phone: (418) 622-7444
- FAX phone: --
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- *** STraight FAX! is a trademark of NewSTar Technology Management.
- *** Geneva is a copyright of Gribnif Software.
- *** GDOS and SpeedoGDOS are copyrights of Atari Corporation.
- *** Atari Works is a copyright of STP Electronics Ltd and Atari
- Corporation.
- *** Warp9 is a copyright of CodeHead Technologies.
- *** NVDI is a copyright of Bela computer.
- *** All other program or product copyrights are owned held by their
- respective companies.
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