Program: CHECK-B
Machines: TS2068
Form: Cassette
Listing: No
Listable: Yes
Language: BASIC
Display: Good
Author: Dale Lipinski
From: D. Lipinski Software
2737 Susquehanna Road
Roslyn, PA 19001
215/572-6812
Price: $20
CHECK-B, a menu-driven package intended to help you keep your checkbook in order, consists of several functions. You can enter data into your electronic checkbook, including check number, payee, amount, and an optional memo, look for a particular transaction, display or print all of the entries, locate and change any entry, balance (reconcile) your checkbook, delete reconciled entries, and SAVE program and data.
CHECK-B contains many good features, among them ease of use, complete, understandable documentation, input error checking and crash recovery. You can enter transactions in any order. After reconciliation, CHECK-B reports correct balances for your checkbook and your bank statement.
CHECK-B has some drawbacks, too. It beeps too much and is too verbose (I prefer output like my checkbook register to CHECK-B’s ten lines per transaction). It displays the current balance after each transaction, instead of a more useful running balance, and finds partial names during a search only if they match the first letters in the field. CHECK-B uses its own “quit” key to mean “go ahead and delete entries” in one section. Not very clever human engineering.
Overall, I cannot recommend this package unless you intend to modify it to make it more useful.