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My Little Realm, v2.0
Description of the My Little Realm System
Released: November, 1992
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Introduction to My Little Realm, the system
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.
Many of My Little Realm's programs may be purchased separately.
These stand-alone modules, called sa's, 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
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 the 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 100 labels for a specific name and address, or you can even
address envelopes.
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.
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).
The Private Library Routine.
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.
The Public Library Routine.
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 an 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.
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 1,000 titles 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.
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.
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
You can purchase the entire My Little Realm system which comes with
all of the above programs plus:
1 Main Menu. It lets you easily change color modes and the cursor
blink rate, shell out to DOS, and invoke MLR's own
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.
2 Utilities. MLR comes with its own backup and retrieval
utilities. You can back up all of your MLR 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!
3 Documentation. MLR comes with its own text viewer and online
documentation so you can view your help files without
leaving the system. Included are two help files on
setting up your system and a Tour Guide file that
takes you through a practice run of MLR.
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.
5 Review Routines. There are two review routines that let you
access your checking and charging files to see how
you've been spending your hard-earned money. Both
routines allow you to peruse your files on a record
by record basis, and you can query your files to see
how much you've spent in a specific store or in a
given situation. They also generate a year-to-date
summary of your records.
Note: The MLR system must be run from the hard disk and requires
2 MB of hard disk space.
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To place an order, print out the text file REGISTER.TXT, fill in the
order form, and mail it with your remittance. The author's name and
address appear on the order form. Your registered versions will be
mailed promptly. Thank you.
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