Franklin AST-110 User manual

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User’sGuide
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AST-110

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Introduction
Congratulations. You now have a powerful, por-
table electronic reference. Using this product,
you can. . .
• find daily horoscopes for yourself and
others.
• find personality profiles based upon birth
dates for yourself, others, and even for
famous personalities.
• test your compatibility with others as
friends and as lovers.
• save birth dates in your personal list for
use at any time.
• learn about the basics and fine points of
astrology.
We suggest you read this User’s Guide and fol-
low its steps to get the most from your new elec-
tronic reference.

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Key Guide
Function Keys
Backs up or erases a letter.
Clears to an entry screen.
Retrieves a frequently used date.
Enters a date or selects an item.
Shows a help message.
Shows the list menus.
Shows the main menus.
Shows the next date or adds a day
to the date typed.
Turns the product on and off.
Shows the previous date or sub-
tracts a day from the date typed.
Direction Keys
Move left or right.
Move up or down. At an entry
screen, adjust the contrast.
BACK
CLEAR
DATE
ENTER
HELP
LIST
MENU
NEXT
ON/OFF
PREV

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Menus Map
Here is a map of the Horoscope’s menus. To use
them, press MENU and then select a menu item.
TOPICS OTHER
Dis/Enable
Demo
Friends
Compatibility
Lovers
Compatibility
Large/Small
Font
Set Shutoff
Tutorial
Clear Date
Personality
Profile
Today For
You
Famous
Birthdays
About
Astrology

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1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. Press CLEAR to stop the demonstration.
3. To adjust the screen contrast, repeatedly
press or .
This is an entry screen. You can adjust the
contrast only at a cleared entry screen.
Getting Started
✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably do not want to view the dem-
onstration each time you start. To disable
it, first press MENU. Then press to
highlight
Other and press ENTER to select
it. Then select Disable Demo .
✓Viewing Help
You can view help information at most
screens by pressing HELP. To exit help,
press BACK.
To view a key guide, press MENU, select
the Other menu, and then select
Tutorial .
Press the arrow keys to read it.

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Changing Settings
You can set the font size and shutoff time. The
font size can be large (2-lines) or small (3-lines).
The shutoff time is how long this product stays
on if you forget to turn it off.
To Set the Font Size
1. Press MENU.
2. Press to highlight
Other .
3. Press ENTER to select it.
4. Select
Large Font or Small Font .
5. Press BACK to back up.
To Set the Shutoff Time
1. Select Other .
2. Select Set Shutoff .
3. Press to highlight a setting.
4. Press ENTER to select it.
5. Press CLEAR when done.
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✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you can
press to move around.
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Finding Personality Profiles
Personality profiles describe the astrological sig-
nificance of birth dates. Read them to learn more
about yourself or friends.
1. Press CLEAR.
Or select Personality profile from the Topics
menu.
2. Type a birth date (e.g.,
12-30-1968 ).
To type numbers, press the top row of letter
keys. You must type hyphens between the
month, day, and year.And the year must have
four digits.
3. Press ENTER.
4. Press to read the profile.
5. Press CLEAR when done.
✓Viewing Complete Menu Items
Some names and menu items are followed
by ellipses because they are too long to fit
on the screen. To view the full name or
item, press when it is highlighted on the
menu.

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Finding Daily Horoscopes
You can find your daily horoscope from January
1, 1900 until December 31, 2049.
1. Press MENU.
2. Select
Topics .
3. Select Today for you .
4. Type a birth date (e.g.,
10-23-1957 ).
5. Press ENTER.
6. Type today’s date or another date.
7. Press ENTER.
Your horoscope for that day appears.
8. Press to read it.
9. Press CLEAR when done.
✓About Selecting Topics
When you select a topic, it remains se-
lected until you select a new one. A check
marks the selected topic on the menu.
The topic you selected may also appear
above
Topics when you press MENU.

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Finding Famous Birthdays
Horoscopes lists the birth dates of more than 700
famous, twentieth century personalities (two per-
sonalities for each day of the year).
There are two
ways to find their birth dates.
Scanning the List of Names
1. Press MENU.
2. Select Topics .
3. Select
Famous birthdays .
4. Type a personality’s name (e.g. Prince ).
To erase a typed letter, press BACK.
5. Press ENTER when the name is high-
lighted.
To view the next or previous alphabetically
listed birthday, press NEXT or PREV.
6. Press BACK to return to the name list.
7. Press CLEAR when done.
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✓Using Famous Birth Dates
Once you have found a famous
personality’s birth date, you can use it to
find personality profiles, test your compat-
ibility with him or her, or save it in your per-
sonal list for later use. To learn how, read
the other sections of this guide.

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Finding Famous Birthdays
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Using the Locate Menu
1. Press MENU.
2. Select Topics .
3. Select
Famous birthdays .
4. Select the Locate menu.
5. Select
Year , Month , or Day .
6. Type in a year, month, or day.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
Acheck marks the selected date. To deselect
the date, press ENTER when it is highlighted.
If you want to select a date from another cat-
egory (i.e., year, month, or day), press BACK
now, select a category, and then select a date.
8. Press to view the match(es).
9. Highlight a match and press ENTER to
view the whole birthday.
10. Press BACK to back up.
11. Press CLEAR to clear your selections.
✓About Bullets and Asterisks
On the Locate menu, bullets (●) indicate
selected categories. Double asterisks (✻✻)
indicate the dates that don’t match your
current selections.