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MS-03: Collecting - Programs for Collectors
Cassy
Diakon Systems
$20
#27281/1539
is a card catalog plus an accession and shelf list system for Dewey Decimal
based libraries to assist in processing books and AV materials. The system
maintains accession information for each item, and provides a means to print
sets of catalog cards, accession lists, and shelf lists. CASSY is menu-driven
and easy to use. About 1400 items can be stored on a 360k disk. Information
entered and stored by this program may be merged into larger systems that
include circulation processing and on-line card catalog features. Two drives
are required.
PC-Card Catalog
Diakon Systems
$39
#27281/2634
provides your personal, church, school, or corporate library with a powerful
on-line card catalog. It is easy to use, yet sophisticated enough for academic
research, allowing you to search by title, author, and subject. It automatically
files items in AACR2 (that is, "library-", not strict "ASCII-") order. It is
compatible with "Cassy" (#1539), above.
Book Librarian 1.53 [BOOKLIB]
TurboSystemsCo, ASP
$38
#27281/3932 [March 1994 CD]
will help organize and keep track of a library of books. You can search by title
author, subject or book type. Information which can be entered for each book
includes title, author, subject, type, edition, pages, copyright year, catalog
number, ISBN, purchase date, price, publisher, location and up to 30 lines of
notes.
Personal Library Manager
Portable Solutions
$30-$40
#27281/3653
is for tracking and management of a personal library. Over 1 million titles,
with over 9,000 editions of each title can be entered. The data files created
are Paradox 3.5 compatible. A wealth of detailed information can be tracked, and
several sorted printing options are available. Requires DOS 3.3+, 512k RAM, CGA
or better video, and a hard disk with 1 Megabyte of space available.
Sandd's Book Guide 1.3 [SBOOK13]
Sandd Software ASP
$30
#4896 (12-93 CD)
is a cataloging system for your library of books and magazines. The
program features autosave, a report generator, VGA screen fading, Dewey
decimal sorting and up to 800 lines of description for each book. You
can also attach multimedia files to entries and view the title and a
picture of, say, the author. Requires 512K.
Collect! 20 [COLLECT2] (11-93 CD)
Alston, Gary L. ASP
$40
#3312
is a basic, easy-to-use database that can be used to track a variety of common
household collections. Sample databases are included for Antiques, Audio,
Baseball Cards, Books, Movies, and Stamps. This makes a lot more sense than
having a separate program for each type of collection you have.
Collect! can tell you the change in value of items, the total value of items,
and more. Additional features include Windows 3.0 support with a PIF file and
an icon, case insensitive searching, and numeric inequality and range
searches. You can mask any field for producing customized reports. 720+ disk
space required.
Collect!
Alston, Gary L. ASP
$40
#4183
is the VGA graphics version of a database that tracks a variety of common
household collections. A VGA 3D graphics presentation is included, in addition
to many other features from the text version of Collect (#3312, above).
Requires a 286+, at least 512K free RAM, and a mouse.
Coin Collector
JetStream Development
$33
#27595/3829
keeps track of your coin collection. Coins sold are automatically added to a
special sales database which reports the profit/loss on coin sales over a
specified period of time. Included is a dictionary of commonly used coin terms.
Lists can be listed or printed in various ways.
PC-Coin & Coin File
Duchek, John R.
$25
#27595/0498
is a system of programs and datafiles designed and written for my own use to
keep an accurate inventory of my coin collections. Be sure to read all of the
manual before trying to run this.
CurrencyTrax 1.21
DataEase Software
$15
#27595/4495
is a database for your currency collection. Information is recorded for
denomination, type of currency note, series of issue, face and reverse
descriptions, signatures of the Treasurer and the Secretary of the Treasury,
color/description of the seal, issuing bank code, serial number, grade or
condition of the note, year obtained the note, amount paid in, current value,
where you have it stored, and miscellaneous notes. Requires 512K RAM.
World Coin Album
Weinberg, Alan
$30
#27595/2290
is similar to the World Bank Notes program, but is for coin collectors.
KeyCoin 1.1
Keyware
$15-$30
#27610/3934 [2 disks]
is a coin collector's inventory with data files for all U.S. coins issued from
1793 to the present. It reports the value of the entire collection, one specific
set, or all sets of one denomination. It lists all missing coins in any one set.
You can also print lists/files, archive and recall files, merge two files and
more.
Movie Database
Balkan, Eric
$?
#27837/613
contains information on over 3500 movies which are currently available on
videotape. With the database you could, for example, get a list of Debra
Winger's movies or director John Carpenter's movies or just movies that Sally
Field and Jeff Bridges made together or which movies based on Alistair MacLean
stories, etc.
Video Xref
Xref Computing
$10
#27837/4345
displays lists of Oscar winners by category, also showing the critic rating and
the year the movie was made.
Movies To Go 1.4
ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP
$43
#27851/4566 [2 disks]
is an electronic guide of 1,000 movie reviews. It allows you to search
for movies with your favorite actor or actress; best directors; specific
categories such as comedy, drama, westerns; a particular MPAA rating;
Academy Awards winners; highest box office gross; music and more.
There are 25 categories to choose from, animated icons, 3D buttons,
graphic menus and mouse support. Requires 640k RAM and 1+ MB of disk
space.
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1330 Music and TV Small Programs Disk
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Audio II
Whisnant, Rod
$10
prints cassette tape case inserts. Works with virtually any dot-matrix
printer. Program allows for the titles of both sides, headings for the
artist's name, dates the tape was recorded, and a list of songs. ASCII line
drawing is used.
Cas-Tape.Frm & Vid-Tape.Frm
Ford, Nelson ASP
$?
are forms set up on Word Perfect using ASCII graphics. On the part of the
form that will be the spine when folded, you can type the names of the music
albums or movies and on the side panel(s), additional information about the
material on the tape. You can use any special fonts, bold, underlined,
italics or other features that WP and your printer support as long the size of
the printed form doesn't change (eg: don't put the printer into 8
lines-per-inch mode).
Cas-Reel (CAS-REE)
Csontos, Michael
$?
is to provide timing information for transfers of recorded material from
reel-to-reel audio tape masters to compact cassettes. The motivation for
writing this program was the frustration of repeatedly mislaying calculator
programs and handwritten tables of this information.
CD Librarian (CD-LIB)
Vass, Garry J.
$0
catalogs compact music disks. The information stored for each disk is:
manufacturer, category, catalog number, physical location, conductor,
composers or principals (up to four), titles (up to four lines of 40
characters each), and notes. Text is converted to upper case. You can scroll
through the entries in the file or do a search.
GeoSat
Loewe, Jerry
$0
is a geosynchronous satellite antenna aiming aid. Graphics required.
InSat
Day, Wayne
$?
calculates the aiming angles from any point in the northern hemisphere, for
selected geostationary satellites.The satellites included in the data
statements are those which would normally be viewable, and of interest to
private TVRO earth station owners.