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- My Little Realm, v2.0
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- Description of the My Little Realm System
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- Released: November, 1992
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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, 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
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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 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.
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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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- 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.
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- 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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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 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.
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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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- 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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