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- Mechanics's Scheduler [TM], Version 4.0 overview:
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- Everything is on line!
- 230 pages of documentation, 60 context-sensitive on line Help screens
- Fast Search Capability
- Rolodex [TM] features
- Appointment Schedules and Graphics
- "Layer-in" ability:
- 99,999,999 layers of data
- All Reports fit into a Standard Briefcase!
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- Be in control of your Customers:
- store up to one BILLION names, phone numbers, or appointments
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- This program includes:
- Appointments, Commitments, Callbacks, Statements
- Revenues\Expenses, Collections, Graphics, Free-form data search,
- Rolodex [TM] features, Labels management, and Reports!
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- Labels management menu provides 13 options for you,
- will recognize 10 different size labels,
- handles U.S., Canadian, Australian, and British labels,
- and performs U.S. Postal Service 3rd Class Bulk Mail sorting.
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- With a built in intelligent Telephone\Speakerphone Dialing System,
- that dials all of your phone calls for you and tells you
- if they are local, local toll, long distance,
- long distance toll, or international
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- and can output up to 20 follow on codes after dialing long distance.
- Stores and dials up to one BILLION phone numbers for you.
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- Links into SBT [TM] and SourceMate [TM] customer files,
- as well as Junior and Senior Loose-Leaf Day-Timers [TM].
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- Contains a built-in proposal and invoice generator.
- and can time and cost your activities
- as well as automatically create summary or detail statements
- to reflect amount owed for activities or consultations.
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- This program standardizes your contact with customers
- and converts forgotten verbal commitments into a focused, daily
- appointments and callback list that nets you extra business!
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- Retrieve activities by word or phrase,
- and has built in word processor for every record in the Rolodex [TM] file.
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- Outputs to dBASE III [TM]
- and to Merge feature in Wordstar [TM], Word [TM], or WordPerfect [TM]
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- To become a registered user for this software,
- bring up the program, PROGRAM.EXE, with GO.BAT
- go to the Main Program Menu, Other Options Menu.
- Select option 6, Register Software
- The registration fee for this fantastic program is only $99!
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- Here is my seventh program: Mechanics's Scheduler [TM]. It offers
- mechanics an unprecedented level of software performance in scheduling
- vehicles, billing customers, and following through on auto estimates.
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- Mechanics's Scheduler [TM] is consistent with the high performance standard
- that all of my software now adheres to: Workstation on a Disk [TM].
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- Workstation on a Disk [TM] is my commitment to you to deliver the
- functionality of a $3,900 industry-specific workstation in the form of a set
- of shareware disks.
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- Providing the mechanic with a powerful administrative tool, Mechanics'
- Scheduler [TM] tracks all activities--maintenance, billings, and auto repair
- estimates--for one billion customers, one hundred vehicles per customer.
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- To see this, please go to the Main Program Menu and observe selection 1:
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- 1) Customer File, with Vehicles
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- After you have selected option 1, you will see:
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- ______________________________________
- A to ADD data
- G to GET data
- L for LABELS
- H for Help
- R to Return
- ______________________________________
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- This program will always display the Vehicle file on the Customer Get
- screen. By entering 'G' for Get, you will then branch to the individual
- customer records. On the first one in the test data, for example, you will
- see this on the top:
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- Enter F5 for Vehicles [3 in file]
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- As you enter 'F5', you will then see the Menu for the Vehicle File. Each
- customer has a unique Menu for the Vehicle File, into which you can enter up
- to 100 vehicles. To read an explanation of the options available at this
- menu, please enter 'H' for Help.
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- You enter and update all vehicles for each customer at their respective
- Vehicle File menus. Entering 'R' to return to the prior record, you will
- then return to the customer associated with this vehicle file. As you enter
- F6 or Act Now [TM], you are displayed a light bar selection of all vehicles
- in the Vehicle file.
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- Bridging the gap:
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- Ease of Use versus Power
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- The most daunting issue today in software design is the tradeoff in ease of
- use versus power. Simply put, business programs that have a short learning
- curve ultimately create little economic value. Software, however, that is
- capable of creating economic value in a business generally has a steep
- learning curve.
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- Through the 'LITE' option, Mechanics's Scheduler [TM] achieves the best of
- both worlds. For the power or frequent user, all features in the program
- are available intact. For the occasional user or for the temporary data
- entry-type person, two-thirds of the screens and most of the functionality
- can be inhibited through the 'LITE' option. To see this, please go to the
- Other Options Menu and observe this selection:
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- M) 'LITE' option [now Off]
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- As you experiment with this new feature by pressing the single 'M' key
- repeatedly, you can see how simple it is to use. Not only does this 'LITE'
- option remove two-thirds of the screens, but relative cursor addressing
- takes place on the remaining screens. This repositions the cursor correctly
- on the reduced screen image. Finally, through one simple external logical
- 'key', this 'LITE' option can be permanently locked in place by an
- administrator for a prolonged period, then just as quickly and without any
- disruption of work unlocked later.
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- Mechanics's Scheduler [TM] is compatible with MS-DOS [TM] 2.0 through MS-DOS
- [TM] 5.0, and has even been field-tested with DR DOS [TM] 6.0.
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- As for hardware, this program will run across the entire spectrum, from the
- simplest of XT's to 486 computers.
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- MS-DOS [TM] is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
- DR DOS [TM] is a registered trademark of Digital Research, Inc.
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