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- My Little Realm version/2.5
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- Retail software vis a vis Shareware software.
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- Shareware is a marketing concept developed by software authors who
- were tired of the "buy it and like it" attitude of retail software
- distributors. With Shareware, you can actually try out a program
- before you pay for it ... right on your own computer, with your own
- computer system, just to make sure it meets your exact needs. If
- it does, you send the purchase price to the author/company that
- wrote it. If the Shareware program doesn't meet your needs, you
- simply delete it from your system. All you've spent is a little
- time testing it and the modest cost charged by the Shareware
- vendor.
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- Introduction to My Little Realm, the system
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- My Little Realm gives non-technical PC owners the chance to use
- PC computers to easily maintain and balance their checking account;
- track charge card expenses; create a phone/address book; print
- labels; address envelopes; track savings instruments; create a
- library of their personal books, tapes, cd's, etc.; monitor public
- library withdrawals; create "memory" records that let the computer
- remember where important documents (like wills, passports, etc.)
- are kept; track business expenses and incomes for part-time jobs;
- easily backup and retrieve files; encourage young readers to visit
- their local libraries; and still more. MLR is self-installing,
- comes with online help files, and users need know nothing about
- DOS, accounting, or file maintenance to make use of the entire
- system. Requires 2 MB of hard disk space.
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- Many of My Little Realm's programs may be purchased separately.
- These stand-alone modules can be run from either a floppy disk or
- a hard disk. The stand-alone programs even make great gifts!
- They'll run on almost any kind of IBM compatible PC.
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- The Stand-alone Programs of My Little Realm
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- * Calling Cards.
- Calling Cards lets you access your phone/address database as if it
- were your own personal Yellow Pages. If you need a plumber, just
- tell Calling Cards to get you the number of your plumber. And if
- you need labels, Calling Cards lets you put your records in either
- of two categories such as "Friends" and "Clients". All you have to
- do is put fanfold labels in your printer and tell Calling Cards
- which category you want the labels printed for. You can also print
- from one to 999 labels of any name and address currently displayed
- using any of the Viewing functions, and you can even address
- envelopes.
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- * Charging.
- If you're the "typical" American family you have seven credit
- cards. Have you ever wondered where you stood with all of those
- cards? How much is out on this one or that one? Or all of them?
- The press of a single key in Charging will answer those questions.
- If you need precise tracking of your charging expenditures,
- Charging can show you how much you spend at specific stores or in
- given situations. This program is also known as the Charge Card or
- Credit Card program.
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- * Checking.
- Checking makes checkbook maintenance a breeze. You create the
- records of your checks, deposits, autowithdrawals, and so on with a
- minimum of data entry. A degree in accounting is definitely not
- required. Checking automatically balances your checking account
- and tracks your personal income tax deductions (or whatever else
- you tell it to keep track of).
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- * Private Library.
- The Private Library routine gives you the opportunity to put all of
- your personal volumes (books, cd's, video tapes, etc.) online. You
- can sort, search, view and print your records in a variety of ways.
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- * Public Library.
- The Public Library routine lets you easily keep track of the works
- you borrow from your public libraries. It helps you remember when
- the books are due, and it maintains a historical log of everything
- you borrow. That way you'll always know if you've returned a book
- or not, and you can view, sort, search and print your Historical
- file.
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- * Read More.
- The Read More program was developed to encourage young readers to
- go to their public libraries. Kids frequently complain that they
- can't find anything to read. Almost all of the titles that come
- with Read More are fun reading. They are not meant to replace the
- "suggested reading lists" proffered by grade school and high school
- English teachers. Read More was designed to encourage young
- readers by showing them a wide variety of new authors and works
- that they would enjoy reading. It comes with more than 2,000
- titles (registered version) that young readers can peruse and
- "check off" after they've read them. Books are listed by age
- groups. For ages 6 months to 18 years.
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- * Records of the Realm.
- "Memory" records created by the Records of the Realm Routine help
- locate important documents in short order. This routine can also
- save you a lot of trouble and headaches should you ever lose one or
- more of your credit cards. It will automatically generate a list
- of phone numbers of all of your charge card issuers so you can
- quickly make the necessary calls to stop payments, print letters to
- those same issuers (required by most charge card issuers), and
- print labels for the envelopes.
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- * Savings.
- Savings lets you keep track of all of your savings instruments ...
- certificates of deposit, passbook savings, Keough plans, IRA's, and
- so on. It prints your savings portfolio, showing the total of the
- portfolio as well as the sub-totals by instrument.
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- My Little Realm/The System
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- You can purchase the entire My Little Realm system which comes with
- all of the above programs plus:
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- 1 Main Menu. It lets you easily change color modes, shell out to
- DOS, see your computer's resources, and invoke MLR's
- ScreenSaver ... all at the touch of a button. It
- also gives you easy, single key access to all of the
- MLR stand-alone programs described above.
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- 2 Utilities. MLR comes with its own backup and retrieval
- utilities. You can back up all of your files with
- the press of a single key. And you can retrieve
- backed up files by simply telling Retrieve which MLR
- program has a bad file. Retrieve will do the rest.
- You don't have to know a thing about DOS!
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- 3 Documentation. MLR/the System comes with its own documentation
- viewer so you can refer to your help files without
- leaving the system.
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- 4 Common interface. MLR's programs are easy to learn, and once
- you learn how to use one, you'll know how to use
- them all because they all work the same way.
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- 5 Review Programs. Two review programs let you access your
- checking and charging files to see how you've been
- spending your hard-earned money. Both allow you to
- peruse your files in a scrollable window, and you
- can query and search your files as well. They also
- generate a year-to-date summary of your records.
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- Note: The MLR system must be run from the hard disk and requires
- 2 MB of hard disk space.
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- Great reasons to buy programs from My Little Realm!
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- 1 Free bonus program! When you purchase one of MLR's
- stand-alone programs, you can select another
- absolutely free! See details below.
- 2 The most recent release of the programs you order.
- 3 Free telephone support, you pay only for the phone call.
- 4 Free support by mail should you wish to use the U.S. Mail
- service instead of the phone.
- 5 Free CIS support.
- 6 My heartfelt thanks.
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- Sincerely,
- John L. Salisbury
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- Free bonus!
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- Purchase one MLR stand-alone program and you'll receive a second
- stand-alone program absolutely free. To get your bonus program,
- simply fill out the order form REGISTER.TXT and select the two
- programs you want. (And pay for only one!)
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- If you're planning to give the bonus program to a friend, please
- indicate the name that should be listed as the official owner of
- the program in the allotted space on the order form.
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- Purchased and bonus programs must be sent to the same address.
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- Important: This offer expires 12/31/94.
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- Printing an Order Form
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- To purchase your programs, print the order form REGISTER.TXT, fill
- it in, and mail it with your remittance. The author's name and
- address appear on the order form. Your registered versions will be
- promptly sent by first class mail. Thank you.
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