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AACODE2 AREA ALABAMA MONTGOMERY ALASKA JUNEAU HI-AK ARIZONA PHOENIX ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK CST CALIFORNIA BAKERSFIELD PST EUREKA FRESNO LOS ANGELES PST PASADENA RIVERSIDE SACRAMENTO SAN DIEGO PgDn-PgUp for more ACODE1 AREA WASHINGTON OLYMPIA SEATTLE SPOKANE WEST VIRGINIA CHARLESTON WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE MADISON MILWAUKEE WYOMING-CHEYENNE PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE3 AREA CALIFORNIA (CONT) SAN FRANCISCO SAN JOSE COLORADO DENVER CONNECTICUT HARTFORD DELAWARE DOVER WASH DC FLORIDA EST,CST JACKSONVILLE MIAMI ST. PETERSBURG TALLAHASSEE EST GEORGIA ATLANTA PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE4 AREA GEORGIA (CONT) SAVANNAH MACON HAWAII HONOLULU HI-AK IDAHO MST,PST BOISE ILLINOIS CHICAGO PEORIA ROCKFORD SPRINGFIELD CST WEST FRANKFORT INDIANA CST,EST EVANSVILLE INDIANAPOLIS SOUTH BEND PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE5 AREA IOWA COUNCIL BLUFFS 712 DES MOINES 515 DUBUQUE 319 KANSAS CST,MST TOPEKA 913 WICHITA 316 KENTUCKY CST,EST COVINGTON 606 FRANKFORT 502 LOUISVILLE 502 LOUISIANS BATON ROUGE CST 504 NEW ORLEANS CST 504 SHREVEPORT 318 MAINE - AUGUSTA 207 MARYLAND - ANNAPOLIS EST 301 PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE6 AREA MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON SPRINGFIELD EST MICHIGAN CST,EST DETROIT ESCANABA GRAND RAPIDS LANSING MINNESOTA DULUTH MINNEAPOLIS CST ROCHESTER ST PAUL MISSISSIPPI-JACKSON CST MISSOURI JEFFERSON CITY KANSAS CITY CST PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE7 AREA MISSOURI (CONT) ST LOUIS SPRINGFIELD CST MONTANA - HELENA NEBRASKA CST,MST LINCOLN NORTH PLATTE OMAHA NEVADA-CARSON CITY NEW HAMPSHIRE CONCORD NEW JERSEY NEWARK TRENTON NEW MEXICO-SANTA FE MST NEW YORK ALBANY PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE8 AREA NEW YORK (CONT) BINGHAMTON BUFFALO HEMPSTEAD NEW YORK NEW YORK WHITE PLAINS NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE RALEIGH NORTH DAKOTA CST,MST BISMARK OHIO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND COLUMBUS TOLEDO PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE9 AREA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA CITY TULSA OREGON - SALEM PENNSYLVANIA EST ERIE HARRISBURG PHILADELPLHIA PITTSBURGH RHODE ISLAND EST PROVIDENCE SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA SOUTH DAKOTA CST,MST PIERRE TENNESSEE CST,EST MEMPHIS PgDn-PgUp for more AACODE10 AREA TENNESSEE (CONT) NASHVILLE TEXAS CST,MST ABILENE AMARILLO AUSTIN BEAUMONT DALLAS FORT WORTH HOUSTON SAN ANTONIO CST UTAH-SALT LAKE CITY MST VERMONT-MONTPELIER VIRGINIA RICHMOND ROANOKE WASHINGTON (NEXT PAGE) PgDn-PgUp for more ACODE2 AREA CODE LOCATION 201 NEW JERSEY EST 202 WASH DC 203 CONNECTICUT EST 205 ALABAMA 206 WASHINGTON PST 207 MAINE 208 IDAHO MST,PST 209 CALIFORNIA PST 212 NEW YORK 213 CALIFORNIA PST 214 TEXAS 215 PENNSYLV. 217 ILLINOIS 218 MINNESOTA 219 INDIANA 301 MARYLAND 302 DELAWARE 303 COLORADO PgDn - PgUp for more ACODE3 AREA CODE LOCATION 304 WEST VA 305 FLORIDA 307 WYOMING 308 NEBRASKA CST,MST 309 ILLINOIS 312 ILLINOIS 313 MICHIGAN 314 MISSOURI 315 NEW YORK 316 KANSAS CST,MST 317 INDIANA 318 LOUISIANA 319 IOWA 401 RHODE ISL. EST 402 NEBRASKA CST,MST 404 GEORIGA 405 OKLAHOMA 406 MONTANA PgDn - PgUp for more ACODE4 AREA CODE LOCATION 407 FLORIDA 408 CALIFORNIA PST 409 TEXAS 412 PENNSYLV. 413 MASS 414 WISCONSIN 415 CALIFORNIA PST 417 MISSOURI 419 OHIO 501 ARKANSAS 502 KENTUCKY CST,EST 503 OREGON 504 LOUISIANA 505 NEW MEXICO MST 507 MINNESOTA 509 WASHINGTON PST 512 TEXAS 513 OHIO PgDn - PgUp for more ACODE5 AREA CODE LOCATION 515 IOWA 516 NEW YORK 517 MICHIGAN 518 NEW YORK 601 MISSISSIPPI CST 602 ARIZONA 603 NEW HAMP. 605 S. DAKOTA CST,MST 606 KENTUCKY 607 NEW YORK 608 WISCONSIN 609 NEW JERSEY EST 612 MINNESOTA 614 OHIO 615 TENNESSEE CST,EST 616 MICHIGAN 617 MASS 618 ILLINOIS PgDn - PgUp for more ACODE6 AREA CODE LOCATION 619 CALIFORNIA PST 701 N. DAKOTA CST,MST 702 NEVADA 703 VIRGINIA 704 N. CAROLINA EST 707 CALIFORNIA PST 712 IOWA 713 TEXAS 714 CALIFORNIA PST 715 WISCONSIN 716 NEW YORK 717 PENNSYL. 718 NEW YORK 801 UTAH 802 VERMONT 803 S. CAROLINA EST 804 VIRGINIA 805 CALIFORNIA PST PgDn - PgUp for more ACODE7 AREA CODE LOCATION 806 TEXAS 808 HAWAII AK-HI 812 INDIANA CST,EST 813 FLORIDA 814 PENNSYL. 815 ILLINOIS 816 MISSOURI 817 TEXAS 818 CALIFORNIA PST 901 TENNESSEE 904 FLORIDA 906 MICHIGAN CST,EST 907 ALASKA HI-AK 912 GEORGIA 913 KANSAS CST,MST 914 NEW YORK 915 TEXAS CST,MST 916 CALIFORNIA PST PgDn - PgUp for more AACODE1 AREA CODE LOCATION 918 OKLAHOMA 919 N. CAROLINA EST TO FIND TOLL FREE # OF A FIRM 1 800 -1212 PgDn - PgUp for more CODES2 DATABASE CODES STATUS FOLLOW UP XX - No Label Print CL - Telephone Call LI - Low Interest ML - Mail Literature MI - Medium Interest WC - Wait for Check HI - High Interest WP - Wait for Purchase Order MS - Made Sale VI - Very Important! LS - Lost Sale Area codes ahead PgDn-PgUp More Help Screens (PRICES Firm - Firm Name Add1 - Main Line of address Add2 - Optional Second Line of Address, or Suite # City - City Name - State Code, GA, IL, NY, etc Zip - Five Digit Zip Code ZP4 - Zip Plus Four Code Car - Four Digit Carrier Route Code, reduces your postage to 10.1 cents if your sort label by this field and meet the minimum quantitiy requirement, call your local post office. Status Status Code (See Previous Help Window) Fcode Follow Up Code (See Previous Help Window) Fdate Follow Up Date (eg 0312 for March 12th) Sale Quote or Sale Dollar Amount SIC Four digit Government SIC code or own personal code PHONE Voice Phone Number FAX FAX Phone Number FAX_CD Fax Send Code, eg FB27 for all Fax sent on Feb 27 PERSON Person or title Bill Jones, Micki Helms (or +PUR Bill Jones) this will override the normal document and schedule PUR for Fax transmission PgDn to see Area Code Tables The CAR code field is a for character field which enables you to select on this code for printing labels. All of our PC Prospector files include the carrier route code. This is a four character code which is the code for each mail carrier route. Sorting your mail in carrier route order reduces your postage from $.25 each to $.101 each. There is a minimum quantity required to mail in each area. Call your local post office for details. The mailing labels that work with this program are called one-up or one-across pressure sensitive label that are 3 1/2" wide and 15/16" deep. This is the standard label used by most personal computers. To locate a source go to your local computer store for forms supply house. Label Format: Firm Name Address City, State Code, Zip Code Attn: Line (supplied when printing) Person (name in data base) The SIC code field is a for character field which enables you to select on this code for printing labels. An Example, you might put a code "REST" for all records in the database that you want to classify as a resturant. This ability will let you then print out a list of all records that you classified as resturants. The mailing labels that work with this program are called one-up or one-across pressure sensitive label that are 3 1/2" wide and 15/16" deep. This is the standard label used by most personal computers. To locate a source go to your local computer store for forms supply house. Label Format: Firm Name Address City, State Code, Zip Code Attn: Line (supplied when printing) Person (name in data base) FAX CD - This field is used by main menu option #2 that allows you to export data from the database for FAX mass mail merges. This means you can code the FAX CD field with unique user assigned codes and then call up the records from the database based on the value of this code to merge with with a ASCII text document (letter) and send over the FAX board. You must have a Quadram JT FAX board or Quadram external JT Fax unit. This field along with the fax phone number makes this software FAX compatible. 10MAIN2 Function Arrows These keys move the cursor to select reco PGUP Scrolls window up PGDN Scrolls window down HOME Advances to the top of the data file, or field Advances to the end of the file, or field Advance back one field, or screen CTL-ESC Abort changes - advance back one screen Enter Accept entry Ctl-Enter Accept Window F1-F10 Various functions defined in each screen Toggle push-right/over-write Skip to last position in line Ctl-End Erase to end of line Ctl-Q Abort changes to window Area codes ahead These keys work on all screens. Pg Dn Next Screen PRICES General Screen handling keys Ctl-Esc will take you to previous screens and Ctl-Enter will accept all data entered on that scree and write it to the disk file. Enter key accepts the data in a field, but does not write it to the disk file. In-context help screens are almost always called with the F1 Function key. PgUp,PgDn keys cycle thru additional help screens. Other special Hot Function keys are use where indicated by on screen instructions, eg Press F10 to Update File. PgDn for Area Code Listings by number & State The memo field can hold one page of memos or notes. Note on backing up files: Please backup up your data files each day! The data files all have the following file extensions so you can use wildcards with your backup commands. File Extension Data Key (index) K01,K02,K03,K04 Memo asPRICES2 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION /PRICE PC Press Assistant - Data base of over 5, newspapers, magazines, radio & tv stations and syndicated news writers. Also included is the software to send individually addressed and routed FAX mail and press releases. Come with Quadram JT 4800 Fax board. Send hundreds of press releases out each evening after 11:00pm for less that ten cents each. $695 PC Yellow Pages - 10, businesses with toll free 800 numbers across the US and 5, of the very largest business in each region. Each entry is classified by business type (sic code) and all have telephone numbers. Automatic telephone dial and prints mailing labels, rolodex cards. #$99 Extra State data paks ,$49 PC Prospector - This demo package is the demo of this product. This data base contains every businesses that according to the US post office receives 10 pieces of mail each day. Updated monthly and contains zip + four code, and carrier route code for each entry. Area Codes Ahead #More PgDn MACODE1 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION DPI (404) 448-6881 PRICE PC PROSPECTOR (cont.) Data Base Software and data: Minimum order is 3, businesses @ $49/thousand Buy between 5, & 8, names @ $49/M and you receive free the following software: Database, Personal Appointment Calendar for 10 people, Personal Information Manager, Electronic Mail & file upload and download software. Area Codes are the very next screen PgDN to view haSHARE2 PC Yellow Pages - Yellow Pages Direct Mail Directory - Shareware Version Notice to all shareware users: All data and software is copyrighted @1989 by John M. Rapp, All Rights Reserved. Dear Shareware User: We are trying to keep our prices of our software and and data at a reasonable level where you can afford to mail to our database and we can afford to stay in business. You have just received our office communications programs and a database sample of 900 business in the 469 SCF code area of Indiana around the towns of Kokomo,Winamac,Wabash,Peru and Marion. We selected these as typical small towns in the U.S.. Areas like Los Angeles and New York city we can provide you with hundreds of thousands of businesses. Our data base contains most buinesses in each zip code in the U.S.. We do eliminate the very small businesses and very new businesses since they tend to go out of business. No we are not anti-small business, we are very small ourselves. We just know that we will save you a lot of wasted postage and other costs by skipping these small businesses & gas stations., for more u SHARE3 PC Yellow Pages Direct Mail Directory - Shareware verison Other database of business list start with a base price of about $49/M and then double the price if you want to receive the data on diskette and charge you a rental fee for each time you do a mailing. If you want zip plus four codes and carrier route codes you pay another extra amount. You want to use the data when you get it? Other firms do not supply you with any programs and you need to have the knowledge to get it in your own database program or hire and outside expert. On top of that their data is is usually very old. They keypunch it from the yellow pages which become 68% obsolete by the end of the year. We obtain our data from a Fortune 50 database compiler and process it monthly against the national change of address service each month. This means that we validate our list monthly with the U.S. Post Office master address data base for businesses. We charge you $49/thousand period. You get it on IBM PC diskette and may use it as often as you like, and we include the zip plus 4 and carrier route code at no additional charge. In some cases we provide the data in major cities for much less than $49/M. Carrier route codes allow you to mail at the 10.1 cent rate. PgDn for more tSHARE4 Not only do you get fresh data, we can provide you with quarterly updates on diskette for as low as $19 per quarter. In addition to the data we provide you with the following software to make the data work for you within minutes of installation: (Registered Users Only) Sales management data base that allows you to add, change, delete and store phone & fax numbers. Special note, all of this software is "fax compatible" which means that if you have or purchase a Quadram JT FAX board for your PC ($395), you can do fax mass merge and send addressed routed faxes for as little as ten cents each. Calendar Personal Appointment calendar for ten people Personal Information Manager to store and organize project notes, access by keywords, due dates, etc. COMM1 An electronic mail, file upload/download program. All programs include extensive on-line, in-context help screens which give you instructions when you press the F1 key. PgDn for more You are reading a help screen opSHARE5 All Software and data is copyrighted, and we put decoy names and addresses to track any unauthorized usage of this data. You are only licensed to use this data for your own use. You may not make this data available to any other person, firm or entity in any manner. You may upload/download this program and sample data base of 900 records. We would like you to upload this program and data to as many BBS as possible. It will help you get more download time and give us more exposure to the market. To receive the data for any Zip code in the U.S. you need only send a check for $149 and we will send you 4, names and addresses on diskette which will be in the exact format as the sample included with this program. We do not ship any C.O.D. orders, nor charge card orders. Make Check Payable to Electric Bookshelf, Inc. & Mail to: 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, #105 Norcross, GA 30071 (404) 448-6881 9:00am-5:00pm EST Attn: Shareware Desk We will then ship you the other programs we mentioned above, and your data diskettes. You have just become a registered user. PgDn for more tSHARE6 Special Notice to BBS Operators & Magazine Shareware Adavertisers You are licensed by Electric Bookshelf, Inc. to put this program and and sample database on your BBS. We hold you harmless for any legal actions which may be claimed by any of your users. This progam and data base is not crippled in any form. The sample of 900 firms are real and may be verified by calling the telephone information number. We expect this product to generate a lot of usage and interest for your BBS system. We do offer the PC Yellow Pages for direct sales. This is a non-exclusive licenses to distribute the program as a shareware program. Keep in mind that you may want to promote your BBS by buying a list of businesses in your telephone dialing area if you are charging for use of your board. All businesses have PC's and are always looking for quality software at a reasonable price. Our products have been promoted on the national level for over a year and have been review or mentioned in over 58 national magazines :PgDN for more.. SHARE7 PC Computing, PC Week, Computer Shopper, Portable Computer, Datamation PC Magazine, Fortune, New York Times, Computer Chronicle TV show and many other fine publications. The name PC Yellow Pages is very well known and generates lots of interest. A Computer Shopper article about us generated over 400 orders, and is still getting us calls. We received over 6, leads in the months of Jan & Feb of this year. This product will be a great drawing card for your BBS. If you do a mailing to the businesses in your area, we suggest that you make them an offer of Free PC Yellow Pages and a Free extra 1 names if they become a new BBS subscriber. We understand that the BBS community is changing and most are now charging for their services. Well you should, running a good BBS takes more time than most people would guess. We used to run an early FIDO board on a DEC Rainbow personal computer. Lots of fun, but the fun wears off soon as the expenses mount. Put PC Yellow Pages on your board and buy 4, names from us in your area and increase your subscriber base and your income. Sincerely, John M. Rapp (404) 448-6881 Shareware Advertisers PgDN for more Special Notice to Shareware Advertisers As we said earlier, we have a great name with "PC Yellow Pages". When any person or business considers doing a mailing to their local area they almost always think of the yellow pages and think of doing it on thier PC. This comes from the Local Bell operating companies spending millions of dollars each year for the last 75 years promoting the yellow pages. Use this unique drawing card in your ad. "PC Yellow Pages" needs little additional explaination other than something like this: PC Yellow Pages - Yellow Pages on Diskette If that wasn't good enough, here is some more good news, it comes on five diskettes. You make even more money! PC Yellow Pages will become your best seller for you and bring you more business customers who might not have considered shareware in the past. Got to get them in your store and see your catalog before they will buy. We have over 7,800, businesses on file, updated monthly! MAIN Main Data Base Display and Update Screen ADDRESS SUITE CAR STATUS FOLLOW FOLLOW RTE FIELD UP DATE UP CODE This screen allows you to search the data base by firm name You can type in the firm name or partial name, eg if you type in "DI" it will find the first occurance of firms beginning with "DI". Data base on this screen is in Firm name sequence. Using the arrow keys to highlight the firm you want to update, you can access the update window by pressing the enter key. Press PgDn Key to see Key Function List AACODE1 AACODE10- AACODE2 AACODE3 AACODE4 P AACODE5 AACODE6 AACODE7 AACODE8 8 AACODE9 ACODE1 ACODE2 ACODE3 a ACODE4 ACODE5 ACODE6 4! ACODE7 |# CODES1 CODES2 GETCAR '+ GETCODE %/ GETFAXCD MAIN '5 MAIN2 18 MEMO PRICES PRICES2 aA SHARE1 SHARE2 SHARE3 SHARE4 uS SHARE5 SHARE6 P] SHARE7 SHOWREC -g