This episode features The Money Manager, originally released in 1983 by Timeworks, Inc.
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Supplement Scans
Packaging cover:
The Money Manager manual front cover. Note the correct Commodore font, and the incorrect Atari font:
Timeworks 1982 catalog page for The Money Manager. Note the color graph (keep dreaming!):
The Money Manager in Action
Booting
When booting one of two colors is chosen at random:
Startup
You can choose use the demo material here, or insert your data disk and continue:
Initialize the system to use your own data:
Are you sure?
Choose your screen color, but choose wisely:
What year is it? This is not Y2K compliant so you need a day compatible year (1989 for 2017):
Initializing the data disk:
Almost done starting up:
Need to import from Timeworks Electronic Checkbook?
Menu
Finally, the menu:
Or if you chose poorly:
Enter Budget (1)
Select month:
Enter amounts for each category:
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
Enter Actuals (2)
Select month:
Enter amounts for each category:
Correct?
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
View/Modify Budget (3)
Select month:
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
View/Modify Actual (4)
Select month:
Add to item:
Change item:
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
View Budget/Actual (5)
Choose between % of total, or % by category:
Of Total
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
By Category
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
View Budget/Actual For An Item (6)
Choose between % of total, or % by month:
Of Total
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
By Month
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
View Budget/Actual Bar Chart (7)
Choose category:
Viewing with chance to print:
Printer ready?
Another category example (with multiple months):
View/Modify Budget Categories (8)
Are you sure?
Which category?
Chance to print:
Printer ready?
End This Run (Store New Data) (9)
Store it on disk?
Error writing to disk:
Files
The Money Manager is compatible with Atari DOS 2.0. The program was available on disk and cassette. The program disk has the following files on it:
The data disk has the following files on it:
The contents of the program disk READ.ME file:
A dump of the category file (CATEG.DAT):
A dump of the budget file (BUDGET.DAT). No worries about personal data security here, but hey, it was 1983:
Printing
Budget (entered) for one month (January):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-1-bud-jan.pdf
Actual expenses (entered) for one month (January):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-2-act-jan.pdf
Budget for one month (November):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-3-vb-nov.pdf
Actual expenses (detail) fo one month (November):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-4-va-nov.pdf
Budget vs Actual (category) for one month (November):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-5-vba-cat-nov.pdf
Budget vs Actual (total) for one month (November):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-5-vba-tot-nov.pdf
Budget vs Actual (one category) for all months:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-6-vbai-inter-month.pdf
Budget vs Actual (one category total) for all months:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-6-vbai-inter.pdf
Bar Chart (one category) for all months (looks basically the same on screen):
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-7-vbac-inter.pdf
Category report:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/s4e07-prt-8-cat.pdf
Instructions
I had some initial difficulty locating the manual, so here is a copy:
https://inverseatascii.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/timeworksmoneymanagermanual.pdf
Show Links:
- Atari Mania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-the-money-manager_29379.html
- Timeworks Catalog at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Timeworks_Catalog_for_Commodore_and_Atari
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