The April 1991 issue (Volume 3, Number 4) of RMG Catalog Updates, the monthly newsletter that RMG Enterprises mailed to its customers on a Larken disk, edited by Rod Gowen. Each issue was a set of Tasword pages to load and read or print. The text below is transcribed from the issue’s disk: Rod Gowen’s welcome page and the news page. The scanned paper page is linked from this document.
Welcome
ARE YOU THERE?!? It is sometimes hard to tell! We had a VERY LOW response to our last couple of mailings. Sometimes it does not seem worth the effort to put out these monthly mailings. Especially in 2 formats! We do the regular paper mailing and also this LKDOS version for our loyal LKDOS users. As time goes by, we will be moving more toward the use of the IBM clone to put the monthly mailer together and this disk version will then become almost an impossibility. At that time we will have to cease offering the disk version of our catalog and RMG UPDATES. What we will do then, if you are a subscriber to the disk version, is notify you and probably offer PD software on disk at least 3-4 times per year to you “ADDED VALUE” subscribers. Don’t worry, this will take several months. We will keep you posted.
TO RECAP: To use this and future issues of RMG CATALOG UPDATES, just do as you did with our disk catalog, LOAD Tasword, and catalog the disk. Then it is a simple matter to LOAD and read/print each page by using the filenames as listed. Of course, we use the default extension of “.CT” for all of our Tasword files and if you do not wish to use our version of Tasword, you are free to use a utility like DISK MANAGER to RENAME the files with your extension. Feel free to do so. When using our version of Tasword, you do NOT type in the extension when LOADing a file!
8 pages this month. We hope you will notice the rapid growth of our “consignment sales” sheets over the past few months. We are pleased to be able to offer this service, If we can help you sell off some excess equipment/software so that you can afford to buy newer things, we are happy to do so. We welcome back MIKE’S NOTEBOOK for the last time as a regular feature. We hope that you have enjoyed this fine column over the past year or so. We will be offering a complete compilation of the columns from the past year on one tape or disk. If interested, please let us know. If there is not enough interest we may not pursue it. In the meantime, enjoy this column.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but: NO LOGICALL YET! We hope to have it by next month. Keep watching!
We have had some news of SNUG from our friend DON LAMBERT who is to be the new SNUG newsletter editor, He tells us that there is due to be a newsletter out in a couple of weeks and then he takes over and will try to keep some sort of regular schedule in the future. We wish him a lot of luck in this thankless job.
AND AGAIN— One last note: If you are having ANY difficulties with this publication, either in getting the disk to load properly or with the format of the pages or even in getting them to print out, we want to know so that we can correct or help with any problems. We want this to be an enjoyable means of getting your news and information, not one that you have to work at. Thanks again and we will be back again next month!
Thanks again and we will be back again next month! Rod Gowen, Editor: RMG UPDATES
News
What's New and Exciting?
Well, we would also like to know! If you have any news to share with other readers out there, we would appreciate hearing from you. It may not seem important to you, but that bit of news about a “solved problem” you were having with a particular program or piece of hardware may be just what someone else needs to finish or start a project. Send it along in printed form, as a Tasword file on Larken disk or casstte and we will print it.
Larken News
HEY!! WE FINALLY HAVE SOME LARKEN NEWS!! You may not like it, but at least we have some news! After speaking to Larry Kenny of Larken Electronics the other day, we now know for certain that there WILL ABSOLUTELY *NOT* BE ANY FURTHER SOFTWARE FROM LARKEN ELECTRONICS. Larry does not consider the market worth the effort involved to get new software ready to sell. He will be working on some new hardware items, such as a good RS232 port, but no more software. Yes, this includes the Tasword Spell Checker and the Desktop Publisher that were in the works. THEY WILL NEVER BE! Perhaps, with the proper requests, Larry would be willing to hand these projects over to someone else who might wish to finish them. ANY TAKERS?
Mike's Notebook
With this issue, we end the current 1 year run of this fine column. Mike has completed the contracted 12 columns and is now on to other things. He has said that he wishes to continue his long time support of the 2068 and will be doing some further writing for us in the future. Keep watching, we will be carrying them as we get them. If you liked this feature of RMG UPDATES, PLEASE, let us know in writing so that we can pass it on to the auther.
Zebra Icons on Disk
We are pleased to announce that we will soon have the 12 sets of Zebra Graphics available on disk in library files. We are using the Lemke Icon Library manager for the purpose. We will have both Larken and Oliger versions. Keep watching, we will tell you when they are IN STOCK. On the same subject, we will also have available shortly the Zebra Graphic Series of programs on disk as well. Also in both LKDOS and Oliger formats. We will have notice of pricing and packaging in our next issue.
Losing Support?
Are we, the TS users of the world, loosing support? YOU BET YOUR RAMCHIPS WE ARE!! And at an ever increasing rate. At least it seems so to us. If you want to keep what little support you have left alive, you had better offer some support in the other direction. If you have a favorite dealer, a local user group or maybe a favorite writer or magazine you had better show them whatever support you can before you lose them.
See you later, KEEP WATCHIN’ FOR MORE NEWS! Rod Gowen, Owner: RMG Enterprises
Also on this disk
- Mike’s Notebook column (the last of its year-long run): LARGE
- Three consignment pages, used hardware and QL products for sale, and an order form
- George Chambers’ Larken System Utility Programs and Disk Doctor, with their documentation
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