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RE:  MITS Altair 8800, ASDC & PCC 2000 (Pertec Computer Corp.) Business Accounting Systems (HD Cartrige and 8-inch floppy).  US Version only.

Originally released for the Altair 8800 BASIC Langauge, v.4.0 in 1977 and which contained a comprehensive, intergrated business accounting package consisting of a General Ledger (GL), Payroll (PR), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), and later Inventory Management (IN or IM) Modules.  It was also bundled along with the Altair (QTYPE 300) Relational Word Processor System for creating custom forms, management/sales reports, catalogs, etc.

This package later became known as the; Peachtree Complete Accounting (PCA).

A similar version with ISAM data was also developed by ALPHA Microsystems (AMOS) for their "AM-100" and "AM-1000" systems with their AlphaBASIC at the same time.

This archive contains all the 96 extracted basic source code programs with their user and system manuals, and some misc. related materials (including the original "HDBASIC-300-5-C-Acct.DSK" file in the "MITS Accounting on SIMH.ZIP" file found on Deramp.com) and was used for this extraction of these original basic program files.

Also included is the .ZIP file of ISAM Programming Manuals and additional information, and a sample of ISAM data management software (Open Source) to experiment with.

This disclaimer text is included in each file, which contains renaming information for referenced files and/or special instructions:

1 '*****************************************************************************
2 '* Rename: [filename].BAS (and any file strings below "$_.___" to "$_.___.bas") only.
3 '* Source File: HDBASIC-300-5-C-Acct.DSK, 4,872KB, CRC-32:  5923D6D5         
4 '* Source URL: https://deramp.com/downloads/altair/software/8_inch_floppy/  
5 '*             BASIC/Accounting/MITS%20Accounting%20on%20SIMH.zip           
6 '* Extraction Date: 30 Jan 2021 by Keith J. Duffield                         
7 '* Disclaimer: This extractor will not held responsible in any way,         
8 '*             whatsoever for users and experimenters using this             
9 '*             basic source code in its original or modified form           
10 '*             for any purpose.  All rights reserved by original            
11 '*             copyright owner(s); TCS CORP, MITS and/or PERTEC.            
12 '*                                                                          
15 '*****************************************************************************

Enjoy your journey of discovery of how BASIC accounting systems work.

Keith J. Duffield
Edmonton, AB Canada