ATARI NEWS....

Atari Accountant:

Due for release this summer: "The ATARI Accountant", a small business package entailing three parts. The Accounts Receivable System is designed to handle the processing of 300 customers at a time with a monthly maximum of 1200. It will keep track of open accounts as well as printing the same, and mailing labels as well. The General Accounting package will keep track of as many as 2700 transactions a month with up to 750 separate accounts; an impressive amount for a small system. It will also produce reports of balance sheets, general ledger, and accounts payable/receivable. Inventory Control will handle upwards to 1000 individual items and also handle the ordinarily time consuming chores of printing invoices, purchase orders, and packing slips. Combined with either of the other two packages, you can keep track of what -is still on credit or has been 'payed off', etc. Requires a 48K system with the 815 dual drive system. Price to be announced.

 

Word Processor:

Those lucky enough to own an 800 and just happen to do a great deal of typing or letter writing, will love the soon to be released word processing package. Using an 800 with 48K, disk dive, 850 interface module, high quality printer (such as the 825), and the word processor, any document can easily be edited or arranged before hardcopy output. Specifically, this allows for the correcting of mistakes, deletion of unwanted text, the changing of words, sentences, or paragraphs, and "cleaner layouts" of printed matter. Because the computer system can (remember' your paper (via the disk drive), when a final printout is made of your work it can be free of mistakes of any kind; and if it isn't, you can easily correct those errors and reprint the whole document without retyping the whole thing in again by hand. The saving of a file, of course, also allows you to run off as many copies of a letter or paper as needed.

The many features are easily available to the user, allowing you to move whole blocks of text anywhere on the "paper", be they paragraphs, sentences, or individual words. You can also underline, center headings or titles, indent or space paragraphs, automatically number pages, select between 80 and 132 characters per line, and right justify representation of your document as it appears in its entirety. Using fine lines (graphics, not alpha-numeric) the screen shows how your "paper" looks (or how it will look); ie. how it is laid Out. A "cursor window" shows the section you are currently working on. ATARI recommends a high quality printer such as the 825; certainly nothing like the 820 or 822 would suffice as a 'letter writing' printer. The ATARI Word Processsor is also tailored to the 825 giving you easy control over the various type faces and proportional spacing. To be available this summer.