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The reason you bought acomputer .in the first lace.The Agony ...Youexpectedyour new computerto perform miracles- to bring order outof chaos. You lookedfor it to organize andmanage your businessinformation. You looked forwardto the end of errors, the end offrustration ... and the saving of~~time, effort and money. Afterall,that's the reason you invested ina computer in the first place.Yet, there it sits. Nothing.... and the ecstasy.Well, your computer can performall the miracles you hopedfor. It needs just one professionaladdition. TheGeneral Manager.The General Manageris what the computerindustry calls adata base managementprogram (DBM) . Ineveryday words - itallows you to organize,store, file, find, save, retreive,interrelate, controland print out all or selected partsof your information. The result:your information, or data, ismanaged totally, completely,automatically.OrdinaryThe ordinary DBM systemexpects your business to conformto its program design. Soyou must change your records,your forms, your way of havinginformation cross-referenced,saved and . . . well, you almostend up with a diff13rent business!Certainly a more frustrating one.ExtraordinaryThe General Manager on theother hand is extraordinary inthe DBM field, because it makesno such demands on you. Instead, it lets you make demandson it! The General Manager wasdesigned so that your businessThe General Managerroutines can be kept as individualizedas you want .. . so yourdata is managed and deliveredin the ways whichare most useful, efficientand effectivefor you.It works so easilyand so well becauseof its "hierarchial"structure. This /sensible"family tree"type of design startswith the main subject, thenbranches out to related i nformation.You enter data on "BlankForms" which you may constructto your exact needs. The datamay be updated, deleted ormodified toyour heart'scontent. Toknow TheGeneral Managerwill be tolove it!Power &PriceNothingnear the priceof the GeneralManager (byhundreds ofdollars) givesyou all thepower , featuresand benefits it does! At$229.95, The General Manager isthe absolute value in its field.Consider this: it supports 1to 4 floppy disk drives (evenhard-disk systems). It includesutility programs which otherscharge hundreds extra for.Upper and lower case charactersin the data base are providedwithout need for additionalcostly hardware. If someonegoofs, the "error message" isdisplayed in understandableEnglish. There is an onscreen" Help" functionavailable any time. Itcreates Applesoft usablefiles for your programneeds. And many especia 11 y useful printingcommands are built-inforgreater flexibi I ity. Whenyou considerall these advantages,andmore, we thinkyour businesssense will a­gree, there'sno contest atany price.The fantasy ...Almosteveryoneclaims userfriendly documentation. The fact remainsmuch of it is convoluted, compIi cated and defies understanding.You can't affordthat! - for a programwithout excellentdocumentation isfrustrating and basicallyuseless.... and reality!At Sierra On-Line we'vespent the ti me and the effortto create superb documentation.It is so good that you can haveThe General Manager up andrunning after the first twochapters! And after you ' rethoroughly at home with it, youcan move on to the otherchapters as you have need forthe many additional functionsand capabilities.The reason you bought ...a computer in the firstplace was, we know, twofold:for word processing (our ScreenWriter program is the leader) ..but mainly for information management.The General Manageris your powerfulanswer. . thetruly outstandingvalue inDBM's, barnone, at only$229.95.For furtherinformation andordering , see your computerdealer or contact us:(800)344-7448~INCSIERRA ON-LINE SYSTEMS, INC.Business products division.36575 Mudge Ranch RoadCoarsegold, CA 93614•The General Manager, version 2.0requires 48K Apple II or II+, 1 or moredrives, DOS 3.3. Direct orders add$3.00 shipping/ handling.