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1 total messages Started by Hans F.Richel Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:00
Continental Software Co; "The Home Accountant Plus".
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Author: Hans F.Richel
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:00
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To whom it may concern,

For my personal finance I use some old software called "The Home Accountant 
Plus". It is the 1.4 IBM Personal Computer version.
It dates back to 1983 and was written by 4 people whose names are:
Mike Farmer, Larry Grodin, Stephen Pollack and Robert Schoenburg.
The User's Guide was written by James E.Richardson and Laura Welch.
Copyrights were by CPU Inc. and Continental Software Co.
By 1983 Continental Software had it's office at 11223 South Hindry Avenue, Los 
Angeles, California 90045.
It is a nice and user-friendly program that shows me every month my financial 
position with minimum effort.
It is not a book-keeping program with general ledgers and all these things but 
simple and easy to handle and especially written for the home-user who wants to 
know where his money has gone. 
It has 5 budget cathegories: Assets, Credit Cards, Liabilities, Income and 
Expenses.
At the end of a years it turns the totals for every item of the past year into 
the buget for the next and there you go again.
It has elaborate listing possibilities and at the end of each month it gives me 
my total net worth. 
The main menu has 6 modules to choose from which are: Transactions, Graphs, 
Printed Reports, Print Checks/Activity Report, Budget and Forecast.
And some data-handling facilities for starting new months or a new year.
It came on two 5 1/4 " floppies.
After all these years I still have much pleasure in using it but as it was 
written in Basic it is very oldfashioned compared to Windows and all that.
So when I got myself a new computer these days which had Windows 95 as 
operating system on it my poor Home Accountant had to let me down.
My printer started to produce chinese characters and I got all kinds of error 
remarks. So I hastely stepped down to Windows ver. 3.11 which did the trick.
What I would like to know now is the following:
Is there anyone out there who knows this software, who has ever used it or 
perhaps knows one of the people who wrote it, knows where Continental Software 
has gone.
Have there been any updatings of the program during the period that I have been 
using it or maybe is there a Windows-version available right now.
I hope that Mr Farmer or one of his (then) colleages reads this message.
Else I'm afraid that my Home-Accountant will forever prevent me from switching 
to a Windows environment.
I sincerely hope that someone will be able to help me.
I have surfed the Internet for this but with no result.
Many many thanks in advance for your help.

Kind greetings,

--
H.F.Richel
Retired Administrator
Coppelstockstraat 2
3132 XN  Vlaardingen
The Netherlands
phone: 31104347121
e-mail:hfrichel@worldaccess.nl
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