Whereabouts of SteveMcClintock

[Greg Newell]

Dale,
    Does this have invoice tracking and printing and histories and the like? It
seem that when I looked at the screen shots on Ken's web page that anything of a
financial nature was missing. Am I wrong?
    regards,
    Greg

Ward & Probst wrote:

> John and List,
> You may want to investigate PianoDB97 by Ken Hale, RPT. We use it and have
> been very satisfied. You can download the program for less than $100 and it
> easily saves that much work. Plus you can do customize it yourself.
> Location:
> http://www.dcalcoda.com/
>
> We have used PTH and PSM and just find that this program fits our needs
> best.
> We will have several programs demonstrated in the CyberCafe at the Annual
> Convention in Arlington. Come check them out.
> Best,
> Dale
> Dale Probst
> Institute Director
> PTG Annual Convention
> Arlington, VA--July 5-9,2000
> wardprobst@cst.net
> (940)691-3682 voice
> (940) 691-6843 fax
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
> Of John M. Formsma
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 11:03 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: RE: Whereabouts of SteveMcClintock
>
> Greg,
>
> You wrote:
> <<I wish I had the time to figure out how to use the office suites to do
> this
> stuff. I'm afraid it would simply take too much time to build.>>
>
> The office suites are fully capable of a great database.  You just have to
> know how to make it work, and that takes precious time.  After finding out
> that PTBiz was $300, I decided to take the time to figure MS Access out for
> myself.  I am endeavoring to do tailor a database for my needs.  I am not a
> programmer (not yet anyway), but will surely know more about databases after
> I study them.  I have bought several books on Access and Visual Basic
> programming, both of which are needed in setting up a good database.  I
> think PTBiz was primarily done using Access queries and wizards, but I can't
> tell for sure since all of the tables, forms, etc. are locked.
>
> My delving into Access will take much more than $300 in books and time, but
> I think it will be well worth it to satisfy my curiosity and my
> do-it-yourselfer bent.  It's kinda like spending $1000 to save $300, but I'm
> going to do it anyway.  I had thought that I could eventually sell what I
> develop, but that may be a ways down the road.  I figure it will take me at
> least half a year, and maybe up to a year.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John Formsma
> Blue Mountain, MS