****** T M P C ****** Product Description TMPC - "The Most Precious Commodity" $49.95 + 3.00 Shipping Acroatix Inc. 10 Upton Drive Wilmington, MA 01887 Phone Orders: 1-800-225-5800 Visa, MC COD, Courier Del. Extra Questions: 1-617-658-5550 --- TMPC is a machine language program for the TRS-80 Model 100 intended to manage time and projects. It is a "must" if you want to get organized. --- Let's face it. Calendar programs are cheap and common. Some of the best are free, right here on this SIG. Why buy this one? We think there are two reasons: 1. TMPC has a "philosophy" of time management behind it. Before we even began writing it, we did extensive research: we chose Stephanie Winston's "The Organized Executive" as a model for the techniques in the program. 2. TMPC competes favorably with paper and pencil. After all, why computerize unless there is an advantage? We've heard our customers say, "I finally found something to use instead of scribbling notes." The comparison between paper and pencil is subjective, of course. In some ways, the model 100 can never be as convenient as paper. But TMPC has its advantages, too. For example: - There is NO limit to the number of entries for a day, and "empty days" take no memory. - Rescheduling can be accomplished with "cut" and "paste," without any re- entry. - Single entries can be made for repeating items. The repeating feature covers nearly every possibility. For instance, the last business day of every quarter, or the second and last Thursday of every month. - Warning periods can be specified for any memo or appointment. This allows you to get, say, a week's warning for your anniversary or three business days' warning for a report. The warning notes always move automatically with the items when you reschedule; they take NO additional storage. - Stephanie Winston recommends keeping a "warehouse" of every task you must do, and daily allotting a subset of the warehouse for completion that day. Her system is workable, even on paper, but it is far easier as incorporated into TMPC. - A diary of accomplished tasks is a natural byproduct of TMPC use. There is no extra effort involved, and a diary is a valuable document. You may not even realize how valuble it is, since most people simply cannot muster the energy to keep one on paper. --- If you have already decided to "computerize" your to-do list, TMPC offers advantages missing from most of its competitors: - To-dos, appointments, and Memos are stored efficiently. On some other programs, even a two-character memo takes up the same number of bytes as the largest allowed entry. Not so on TMPC. - The calendar display is fast. No model 100 program is faster, to our knowledge, in display of a calendar. Further, you get THREE monthly calendars packed into a single screen. See TMPC.SMD and TMPC.SMP, in this database, for a sample program demonstrating the calendars. - Entry and modification of text works through the model 100's TEXT program you already know. - You access features through a "floor plan" interface, illustrated in the sample. Most of the time, you only need the arrow keys, and their proper use becomes instinctive quickly. - Several important heuristic aspects of the program can be customized to your own needs: for example, the cursor character and movement speed. --- A TIME FOR HONESTY: We think TMPC is a great program. However, experience has shown us that the users who benefit the most have either a handy mass-storage device (DISK+ or the Chipmunk), multiple memory banks, or both. The program is larger than we would like (9.6K), and if you have an unadorned 24K machine, you can run TMPC, but you will often want to remove it to make room. However, TMPC works flawlessly with any of the bank products on the market as of this writing. It can work tolerably well with CDOS by virture of an included utility FUTIL, which can help with other machine-language programs as well. We designed TMPC to be expandable. Several modules are in development which incorporate users' suggestions. There are also TMPC-related products in development. We are not a giant company, but we are committed to supporting the product as well as we can. All in all, if you are a model 100 enthusiast, you will miss TMPC more than you would miss the $50 -- we're almost certain of it. But you'll never know unless you buy it! Leave further inquiries on the bulletin board for Acroatix Inc. [72457, 3343 ]