 xO                                                                           ve noticed that there is sometimes a narrow blank line toward the bottom of a clip when used on a label.  A quick fix for this is to use the pressure roller as well as t St Louis (continued).  Do you have LABELWORKS by Walters?  If you do you may have noticed that there is sometimes a narrow blank line toward the bottom of a clip when used on a label.  A quick fix for this is to use the pressure roller as well as the tractor feed for the labels.

     This is from me.  I am very sorry to report that J-CHECK SOFTWARE is out of business.  They produced dust covers for most computers and printers and had to decide either to expand to keep up or to slown down & stop.  I have a set of their fine dust covers for my ADAM and disk drive.  At least NIAD still lists dust covers for both ADAMs as well as our disk drive.

     This is from NIAD, PO Box 1317, Lisle, IL 60532 $19 year.  ADAM support has been enhanced by the emergence of Milton-Bradley, who is now providing customer service for the Coleco products, including the ADAM.

     Advanced Uses of Electronic Flashcard Maker from George Kuhns.  ... It can be used for education enhancement, if you make proper use of it.  I have a son, in the 6th grade, who was having trouble in school.  After looking at the manual, I came to realize my son could put all the review questions at the end of the chapters in almost all of his subjects on EFM.  It worked, his first test after using EFM was an A!  I don't think parents have realized the pot- 
tential of this program.

     Believe me, I never realized what an improvement can result.  One might ask, "What about the limited space for asking questions?".  Well this actually can be a challenging aspect of EFM.  This limitation makes you think about the subject intensely.  You have to take the text questions and reword or divide them into more than 1 question.  What a way to get your children thinking about the subject he or she is studying.

     After using it to improve my son's grades, I decided to use EFM for my job rating exam, which involves a timed multiple choice test once every six months.  I took the three rate training manuals and made questions for every italized, underlined, and important subject in the book.  My grades improved greatly.  I have almost 1200, that's right, 1200 questions on disk about music theory.

     I found one bug that everyone should know.  If you are using a 5-1/4" Double-Sided 320K Disk Drive, you can only write 13 files on one disk.  It seems that EFM sets up a certain amount of memory for each set of questions.  If you store to the 14th file you will hear that audible beep beep of your double-sised disk drive flipping over to the other side of the disk.  The problem arises when you want to GET the 14th file.

     SmartWRITER IS INCOMPLETE.  Their is a 10 page limit for a document.  Be careful, the system tends to lock-up. (Add a 64K board to increase limit). 
Accidentally pressing the `UNDO' and `BACKSPACE' keys at the same time will sometimes lock-up the system.  Continuously saving to the same disk/ddp under the same name can and will sooner or later cause the system to garble the directory of the media, therefore causing you to lose access to all the files on the media permanently.  To avoid this problem, save the new edited file under a different name.  (I use an extension of 1 or a on my files if I know that I will be updating it soon, Norman).

     Remember, always keep a backup copy of all your important files on a separate media.  We say this over and over and still people still call up asking if we can repair damaged media.  Sometimes we can!

     NIAD does accept non-members orders , but not at the member discount. 
 
Norman R. Castro, 809 West 33rd Avenue, Bellevue, NE 68005 {402} 291-4405
 
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