luckybuck Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 Hi! Yes, me too! Atari Home Finance-Fall 1980: Seems to be complete on it's own as a cart. Heard rumors, that it worked with CX406, but I have seen the backside of the box. It is just 2 disks new for us. There seems to be from Control Data. Enlargement for the "Atari Investment Analysis Series" Will return, when I know more and allowed to share with here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I'm the owner of the cartridge (it's my avatar). It says CheckBook, but the chips are marked PF 1980 (the code also have "Home Finance" labels in it). See AtariAge post on Checkbook, thanks. If you find anything out, I'm very interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 We are totally in the dark, a picture of the back of the box, like this one here from CX401: CX401-back.jpg for the requirements would be extremely useful. :-))))))))) Please take into account, the need for the 815!!!!!!!!! For everyone's info. Check book is part of the disks. Basic cart is required to run this. Back of the folder of mine is different. As the 815 was not officially released, the 810 version was done. Added scan of the rear of my folder. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Will raise a site in the AtariWiki, please stand by. Thanks to James, we wil be able to solve a 34 year mystery, What a moment and we are part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Will raise a site in the AtariWiki, please stand by. Thanks to James, we wil be able to solve a 34 year mystery, What a moment and we are part of it. What mystery did you solve? PFMS was already understood and we had it running. And yes, basic was a part of the requirements. The real mystery is that Atari advertised a Personal Finance Cartridge identified as CXL8001. That number was never formally released, yet a cartridge showed up and was advertised. You're confusing two different products, and the wiki entry is incorrect. You show screen shots that I made of my cart with the disk based 1981 version. Now Home Finance is a different story that I'd like to know more about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 It is not me, who solved the mystery, it was James by posting an image from the back of the box. Before that time, I had the info from a reliable source, that your cart was part of the box. Now, thanks to James, we do know better. :-)) Your cart remains to me a mystery. The above picture from the box, may belong to your cart. I think about making a site in the Wiki about that. Anyway, only an Atari employee can solve everything around your cart. A big thank you goes to you, too, for sharing the cart. :-))) The CX406 box belongs to my mind to: Atari Investment Analysis Series: Bond Analysis CX8106 (1980) (Basic) Mortgage & Loan Analysis CX4115 (1980) (Basic) Stock Analysis CX8107 (1980) (Basic) Stock Charting CX8108 (1980) (Basic) CDC-Logo.png Control Data Corporation – Wikipedia.webloc The question remains, why that big box, while the above one were sold the "normal" way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Where did you dig up the Home Finance pic? Does anyone have information regarding that. Atari Home Finance-Fall 1980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Url for CX406 & CX412: http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Atari_Connection_Fall_1981.pdf CX412: Dow Jones Investment Evaluator, works only with Modem and Wall Street-connection (s. pdf above), sold in the US only... Where do we have that again? CX8124 Dow Jones Investment Evaluator CX8125 Dow Jones Investment Evaluator CX8127 Dow Jones Investment Evaluator url for your cart here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=238922 The picture above is from some advertising(?) Fall 1980 From Atari FAQ: 1980January 5-8: At the Winter CES in Las Vegas, for the 400/800, Atari introduced the 825 printer, 830 modem, and 850 interface. 400/800 software titles introduced: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Star Raiders, Personal Finance (earlier: Home Finance; never shipped). stay tuned, will 1st make the site, then(!) return Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8bitCarts Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Url for CX406 & CX412: http://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Atari_Connection_Fall_1981.pdf url for your cart here: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=238922 The picture above is from some advertising(?) Fall 1980 From Atari FAQ: 1980 January 5-8: At the Winter CES in Las Vegas, for the 400/800, Atari introduced the 825 printer, 830 modem, and 850 interface. 400/800 software titles introduced: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Star Raiders, Personal Finance (earlier: Home Finance; never shipped). stay tuned, will 1st make the site, then(!) return I asked about Home finance picture, where is that from. As for the link and information is already in my posting, if you didn't see it: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/194283-checkbook-cartridge-cxl8001/page-8?hl=%2Bcheckbook&do=findComment&comment=2558840 And the paragraph is listed as: 1980 January: At the Winter CES in Las Vegas, for the 400/800, Atari introduced the 825 printer, 830 modem, and 850 interface. 400/800 software titles introduced: 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, Star Raiders, Personal Finance (never shipped as introduced; possibly eventually shipped as: Personal Financial Management System). Also, list prices for the 400 and 800 packages increased to US$630 and US$1,080 (up from US$550 and US$1,000). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 As I have written: " The picture above is from some advertising(?) Fall 1980 " I am not sure, have searched a lot through my archive: 165 GB... Give me some time. If it is from a source, which I have to protect, then I am sorry. Let me make the site first. Now I really need some sleep... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 According to this Atari ad, Atari was still trying to get PFMS out the door by "mid-1982". While according to ANALOG #9, PFMS was actually pulled from the market in mid-1982. Makes for a very brief window of time when it would have been available! QScan02012015_155706.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 Hi hummanik, thanks for uploading. Funny to read. But in my opinion post #28 from James gives the right answer: it is from 1981. Take for example Calculator, it is from 1979 and was sold 2 years later. In one sentence: Atari doesn't want the business programs to be out for the people. The main emphasize was put on games. Therefore Atari was the 'Game Computer'. Meanwhile it is proven, that this is not the fact. CX406 will come to light, please stand by. Up to that time, please take a look here: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Articles#section-Articles-Applications Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hunmanik Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 And then when mid-1982 came around, they pushed back the anticipated release date one more time, to first quarter 1983.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted February 1, 2015 Author Share Posted February 1, 2015 :-) Thanky you very much! :-))) Funny to read, so again(!) it took Atari 2 years to release programs, that were already finished... What a management... Else, the pressure from IBM was too big... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 @Atari8bitCarts: Have found it! http://ftp.pigwa.net/stuff/collections/Atari%20magazines/Playboy%20Guide%20Electronic%20Entertainment/elec_ent_fall80.pdf page 4 in the pdf file. Have made a site for: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Home%20Finance We must solve that mystery around your very special cart. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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