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It promised to take the work out of work.
The personal computer courted you with endless promises. It would do your job
faster, make life easier, send you home happier. It would do the heavy lifting, you
would do the heavy thinking.
Alas, reality fell short of the dream.
The computer refused to do things the way you like to do them.
Refused to juggle lots of jobs at once. Refused to move swiftly from project to
project. Refused, even, to understand simple English.
And then. Each software program took days, weeks (sometimes classes) to
learn. There was no way for individual programs to talk to each other. No way to
take data from here and transfer it to there.
The machine that promised to be your partner in a new era of productivity
has behaved like a renegade two year old.
Enter Visi On.™ Suddenly and without warning,
your personal computer becomes everything you actually bought it to be.
Visi On is a completely new generation of business software that does
what no computer or program has ever done. It makes the personal computer
work harder, work easier, and work more sensibly.
How? By managing the computer. By making it work the way you
are accustomed to working.
Think of Visi On as a “boss” who
instructs the computer on how to deal with the
specific applications you want to work with:
Visi On Calc,™ Visi On Word,™ Visi On
Graph,™ and Visi On Query.™ Since
all these applications work for the same boss,
they all work the same way. Learn to use one,
and you’ve essentially learned to use them all.
Visi On makes each application the best you
ever worked with, no matter which you’re using.
Never have individual applications performed more
efficiently, more easily, or more powerfully.
Moreorer, the strength of each application
is actually boosted when you combine them.
Indeed, Visi On demonstrates its true genius
whenever you want to do a number of things at
once. Before now, going from a database to
a spreadsheet to business graphics on a computer
required rifling through a stack of different
program disks and a bookcase full of instruction books.
Now, with Visi On, each application can talk
to the other. You’re free to transfer
words, numbers, formulas, even entire charts,
from one place to another. Noodle, fix, futz.
No fumbling floppy disks. No forgetting
instructions. Just analyze, experiment, refine,
decide, and move forward.
Applications appear on the screen as windows,
representing workspaces. To open a window, you
point a hand-held pointer called a “mouse.”
Two buttons on the mouse control your options.
It’s simple to learn, and even easier
to use. There are only a few basic commands,
and they remain in sight at all times.
Should you see a problem, point your mouse at it
and press a button. Having anticipated the question
you were going to ask, the Help window
opens and presents the most probable answer.
There. Your computer has become a sweetheart;
as cooperative, as productive as it promised it could be.
Freeing you to think about lunch.
Visi On works on the IBM® Personal
Computer, and indeed, most computers.
Induding the one you now own and aren’t speaking to.
And since it’s open-ended, you’re
free to add applications such as our new
communications system, which will allow you to
transfer information between other personal
computers, local networks, outside databases,
and your company’s mainframe computer.
Rumored, reviewed, tested, heralded, and much
anticipated, Visi On is now here. See your
Authorized VisiCorp Dealer or sales rep for a
demonstration and information on our comprehensive
support program. And note one more way we ensure
that your investment is never at risk: Receive
your original purchase price (minus a new materials
charge) for any VisiCorp software you now have,
in trade for its Visi On equivalent.
You see, you’re buying Visi On from
VisiCorp, the leading maker of business software.
No one makes more useful, more powerful software,
either (just ask over a million people now
using VisiCalc®). And no one
supports it better.
Finally your computer will be everything you
always wanted it to be. Visi On will never
let it be anything less.
[fine print]
Visi On, Visi On Calc, Visi On Word, Visi On Graph, Visi
On Query and VisiCalc are trademarks of VisiCorp,
San Jose, CA. IBM is a registered trademark of International
Business Machines Corp. © 1983 VisiCorp.
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