KLund1 Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Anyone have a copy they might be willing to part with. It's not on Atarimania I'm also looking for these: CX402 Accounts Receivable System CX403 Inventory Control System CX406 Personal Financial Management System CX412 Dow Jones Investment Evaluator And these too CX8106 Bond Analysis CX8107 Stock Analysis CX8108 Stock Charting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Knight Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 The first four listed are very difficult to find. I myself am also look also these and CX401. I understand one or more were not released for long and most copies were early ones given for promotions and alike. Some of these are difficult to get pictures of - let alone ATR's or the actual package. If anyone has pictures of CX402, CX403 & CX412 - could you post them as im eager to see what to look out for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLund1 Posted September 1, 2013 Author Share Posted September 1, 2013 Good to know. Did not know they were hard to find. I just though people were not that interested in these titles. If there is anyone with these,it would nice if they were to color scan the manuals, covers to pdf, and upload an ATR file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 CX8106 Bond Analysis CX8107 Stock Analysis CX8108 Stock Charting are part(!) of the Atari Investment Analysis Series. Mortgage & Loan Analysis CX4115 (1980) has to be added, too. I have the complete series in original disks and manuals. Still searching for: a) BUGV4FIX.COM b) Synapse Software SynCalc Templates Disk ATDSK-6113 A/CDSK-6113 c) Personal Finance Management System CX8113, Personal Finance Management System CX8114 (they were sold apart from box CX406!) Further boxes: CX401 General Accounting System, 4 disks CX402 Account Receivable System, 4 disks CX403 Inventory Control System, 5 disks CX404 Word Processor, 2 disks CX405 Pilot Educator, 2 disks? or 2 cassettes? CX406 Personal Financial Management System, 3 disks CX412 Dow Jones Investment Evaluator, 2 disks x CX414 The Bookkeeper, 4 disks x CX415 The Home Filing Manager, 2 disks x CX421 Family Financies, 2 disks the x-ones are available. Atari Editor CX8105 Disk? Atari Statistics II CX8112 Disk? Further: http://www.atarimuseum.com/atarieducation/education-menu/edu-menu.htm Regards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 (edited) Hi together, here are my investigations so far: a) CX401-403: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=The%20Atari%20Accountant%20Series b) CX406: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Personal%20Financial%20Management%20System c) CX412: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20The%20Dow%20Jones%20Investment%20Evaluator d) Atari Home Accounting System: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Home%20Accounting%20System e) Atari Home Finance: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Home%20Finance f) Atari Investment Analysis Series: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Investment%20Analysis%20Series g) the remaining: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Articles#section-Articles-Applications Results: We have all in pd, please see the links above, just: a) is completely missing, but I know 2 users in the US, who own them and have already proved that. Maybe we can crowdfounding this? c) I highly doubt this box ever existed! There is no trace, no picture, just ads and announcements... nor more... are missing and we have preserved those values for the generations who follow us. @KLund1: does that mean, you have CX401? It requires(!) a 815... Edited August 4, 2017 by luckybuck 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 (edited) b) CX406: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Personal%20Financial%20Management%20System Two questions on PFMS: The "Blank Diskette (Model CX8100)" on atariwiki is actually Caverns of Mars. Why do you want to put PFMS on a DD disk? If you omit DUP.SYS on an ED disk with DOS2.5 is sufficient. I fumbled around with 2. today and came quite far but failed miserably trying to initialize a data disk; probably due to 1. Edited August 5, 2017 by DjayBee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Hi DjayBee, 1. it is both, there are 707 sectors free if you take a look under DOS II 2.0S, anyway it is from the original disk... 2. You have to switch many times the disks, this is not user friendly, to get it smart, it would be cool, to have 2 DD drives on which the 1st holds all(!) programs. Keeop on going... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 (edited) Hi DjayBee, 1. it is both, there are 707 sectors free if you take a look under DOS II 2.0S, anyway it is from the original disk... 2. You have to switch many times the disks, this is not user friendly, to get it smart, it would be cool, to have 2 DD drives on which the 1st holds all(!) programs. Keeop on going... :-) The data disk does not need anything initialized beforehand. Attached is an SD-disk with only empty sectors which worked as a template to intialize the (also attached) first data diskette. FInd also attached an ED-disk with the complete software and in standard DOS 2.5 format without moved VTOC/directory. I have not yet tried to implement this version with a moved VTOC/dir. It might also fail the initialization of the data diskette. This seems(!) to work but I did not try anything besides initializing the data disk and calling the ENTRY from the KEEPER, which accepts the data disk. Changing the software to work with D2: for the data disk will be some work because all file names in the BASIC code are in "D:FILENAME" format´ and therefore lack the needed character for the "2". So one cannot just patch the image but needs to load the source, change all the strings and save it back again. And even then I guess that the initialization of the data disk needs to be done in D1 because it obviously writes directly to the sectors since it creates the VTOC and directory. Personal Finance Management System CX8113-4 (ED-DOS 2.5).atr First Data Diskette (SD-DOS 2.5).atr Blank Diskette (all empty sectors).atr Edited August 6, 2017 by DjayBee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Here is a version on a DD disk together with a working first data disk. There are two versions: - Patched DOS to work with the moved VTOC/directory of the original disks - Standard DOS BUT:This version always runs against error 161 (too many open files). Increasing the number from the standard three to the maximum of seven did not help. The attached image allows for five files and at least does something. Perhaps somebody else can take over now and find the reason. Furthermore find attached a patched DOS 2.5 which can work with the original PFMS SD disks. PFMS CX8113-4 (DD-DOS 2.0D patched - 5 open files).atr First Data Diskette (DD-DOS 2.0D patched).atr PFMS CX8113-4 (DD-DOS 2.0D - 5 open files).atr First Data Diskette (DD-DOS 2.0D).atr DOS25-PFMS.atr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Hi DjayBee, Thank you for your work. At the moment, I really don't get the point of your work. In the Wiki: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Atari%20Personal%20Financial%20Management%20System we have published everything so far. If you make a print out in a text file and open this in an actual editor and search for: "D:", it should highlight all occurrences. From there on, it should be done. All disks are 1:1 copies from the original disk, therefore, Caverns of Mars was on it! The same as a pinball and a flight simulator were once in MS Office. Doom in PowerPoint I haven't verified yet. To sum it up, 2 things have to be done: a) adapt the soruce code for the use of 2 DD disks without the need for disk swapping b) clear up the false calculations in the code, so the results are reliable and the software can be used Much work to do, of course, but I always wrote, that my main focus is and must be on first of all to digitize all programs on magnetc layers, because the data won't last forever there... 2nd: I have received so many programs already, which are not on the Wiki, due to lack of time. As of 2017, I am 1.5 years behind of deliveries, I received. Therefore, please don't worry, if can't upgrade the site very soon. But you are invited as an author to Wiki and do it on your own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DjayBee Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Oops, then I misunderstood the Wiki page. I thought that the version which combined CX8113 and CX8114 on one disk (the DD disk) did not work at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckybuck Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 The original ones work like a charme, but the VTOC is "out of order". This has been fixed by Mr. Bacardi, so we have actual access to the real files. From these files, the further investigations should be done. Thanks anyway, not many users are interested in the serious stuff. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 I wrote a blog post on the Atari Accountant series, the General Accounting System and the Atari 815 dual disk drive. Let me know if you have any information to add. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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