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SCAP (Stock Control & Pricing) Manual & Program for the System-80 - ChickenMan - 23-02-2024
Thanks to kimjohn for making this manual available to be scanned. It was scanned at 300dpi and converted to a searchable PDF as usual. Its A4 in size, 56 pages long and a catalogue number of X-3750. Produced by Dick Smith Electronics in 1980.
The Dick Smith STOCK CONTROL AND PRICING SYSTEM (SCAP) is a
powerful computer program designed to run on the very popular
System-80 computer. It has been written in Australia,
specifically to meet the needs of small to medium Australian
business firms. Here are some of the many outstanding features
which it can offer YOU -
* Control and management of up to 1200 stock lines.
* Simple "menu-driven" operation.
* The ability to get up-to-date information on any stock item, in seconds.
* The use of a very fast machine-language sorting routine.
* The ability to get an up-to-date summary of your overall stock position at any time.
* The ability to produce up-to-date printed price lists and stock status listings.
* Convenient "flagging" of new, adjusted and discontinued items.
* The ability to keep track of gross profit margins for each and every stock item.
* Automatic adjustment of stock levels and status.
* The ability to print out stock item count sheets.
* Easy expansion.
In order to run SCAP on your System-80 computer system and get
the full benefit of its features, you will need at least the
following hardware items:
1 x System-80 computer, video monitor and expansion unit, with a total of 32K of RAM memory.
2 x 40-track floppy disk drives with daisy-chain cable and power supply
1 x 132-column printer with cable
Unfortunately the manual did not come with the program. However, the BASIC listing of the program is included in the last 6 pages of the manual in fine print. These were then scanned at 600dpi and ocr'ed separately with the text extracted and saved as separate files. There are 2 programs, the main SCAP program and a much smaller SCPPSST sort program. As usual the number 0 and capital O's were mixed so manually corrected. Same with number 1 and lowercase letter l. There were few other issues but I think I have them all corrected. However, the BASIC used is the one that comes with PERCOM OS-80/Microdos and incompatible with the other normal Basics used. The MERGE command in Basic can load in an ASCII/TXT file and you can then save out as a /BAS file. The TRS80gp emulator is even easier, so if you boot a MICRODOS disk, you just drag and & drop the ASCII files from your Windows desktop, and they start running. However, they both error out eventually with a problem that makes no sense to me. So I have made available the ascii versions of both SCAP & SCPSST programs for anyone to play with them together with MICRODOS. Remember you need 2 disks drives for it to work also and please let us know if you do get it to run.
So in the Vintage Repository in the System-80\Manuals folder we placed
dse_scap_system_manual.pdf <-- all 3 in the one ZIP file
scap.asc
scpsst.asc