The February 1990 issue (Volume 2, Number 2) 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. Phone numbers have been left out.
Welcome
RMG UPDATES * VOLUME 2, NUMBER 2 Back for another issue of our little venture. We certainly hope that you are getting something out of this. We are doing our best to keep you up on what is going on in the wide world of TS! Remember! Without you, the customer, we, the dealers, can not continue to supply your needs! When a product stops selling, a dealer has no choice but to stop carrying it! SUPPORT! THAT’S WHAT IT TAKES!
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.
IMPORTANT! We have been hearing from some of you about having tried to use our version of Tasword to PRINT out the files and have had a problem. BE AWARE! OUR VERSION INCLUDES PRINT ROUTINE FOR A & J PRINTER I/F. IF YOU ARE USING ANOTHER I/F, YOU WILL HAVE TO MERGE YOUR TASWORD CODE WITH OUR TASWORD BASIC!
Watch for next months’ issue. We will be including another PD program for your LKDOS system. We have just received an update on George Chambers’ utility disk and hope to include at least 1 of the programs that have been improved. We hope that it will be something someone out there can make use of!
Be sure to check out the UPDATES sheet this month for any Larken news that might have filtered down to us. You may find some other information that will be of use to you as well.
On the subject of material for our little endeavor, if any of you have a short program of any type that you would like to put into the public domain and would like to let us publish here, PLEASE, feel free to send us a copy. We would like to see it! Let others know what you can do!
AND AGAIN— One last note: If you are having ANY difficulties with this pulication, 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 HAVE A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR! Rod Gowen, Editor: RMG UPDATES
News
On Our Way in 1990
Here we are, 2 months into 1990 and still going strong! Who would have guessed, 7 years ago, that we would still be supporting an “orphaned” computer? Certainly not us! We hope to be able to continue to supply your TS needs and even your PC needs if that is the way you decide to expand. We are a full line TS AND PC dealer with many, many sources of GOOD BUYS for our valued customers on both fronts. Next time you need something for your existing computer system or want to start looking at a new system to ADD to your computer hobby/job, be sure to give RMG a call to see what we can do to help!
Cambridge News
In case any of you missed our notice last month, we are going to repeat it here: RMG ENTERPRISES NO LONGER SUPPORTS THE CAMBRIDGE Z88 Please refer all of your questions and inquiries regarding this fine little portable computer to SHARP’S. He carries a full line of supplies for the Z88 and advertises in Computer Shopper. If you need a phone number, give us a call and we will give it to you.
Larken Electronics News
We are sorry to report that we still do not have any definite Z date on which we can expect either the TASWORD SPELLCHECKER or the new Mac-Like DTP from Larry. We have spoken to him recently and the best he would give us is a “maybe sometime in February”. We can only hope that it is sooner. Needless to say, no matter WHEN he gets them finished, he will have a VERY grateful set of users out here! We will keep you posted. RMG Update readers will be the FIRST to KNOW!
Novelsoft Software/Larken
Again we have to apologise! Boy, I sure wish that when someone promises to deliver a product by a certain day, that they would do so! It is aggravating to have to keep telling you, our valued supporters, that it will be “just a little longer”! But, that is exactly what we have to say about this promised software package as well. We were suppoesed to have it in hand by the week after Christmas, and now it looks like it will be the end of January. Please bear with us. We WILL get it, sooner or later! I guess we had just consider ourselves lucky to have some folks out there who still want to tinker with our favorite little computer and who seem to keep coming up with new ideas. Let’s try to support them in any way we can, including bearing with them.
If you have a bit of TS news that would be of interest to our customers, why not share it?
KEEP WATCHIN’ FOR MORE NEWS! Rod Gowen, Owner: RMG Enterprises
Also on this disk
- “1990 Bargains” Flash page with a Larken disk system special
- RMG’s public-domain software list
- Used software and used hardware lists, a list of QL books, consignment pages (sellers identified only by reference codes) and an order form