{"id":16604,"date":"2017-05-16T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=16604"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:15:40","slug":"the-versabusiness-series-commodore-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/05\/16\/the-versabusiness-series-commodore-64\/","title":{"rendered":"The VersaBusiness Series (Commodore 64)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Commodore_MicroComputer_Issue_40_1986_Mar_Apr-025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16605\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Commodore_MicroComputer_Issue_40_1986_Mar_Apr-025-766x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"commodore_microcomputer_issue_40_1986_mar_apr-025\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"raindrops-press-this\">Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FCommodore_MicroComputer%2Fcommodore_1986-40&amp;twg_show=Commodore_MicroComputer_Issue_40_1986_Mar_Apr-025.jpg\">Commodore MicroComputer &#8211; Issue 40 &#8211; March April 1986<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Commodore 64 had a reputation for being a games machine and thus was often not taken very seriously but for at least the first several years of its life there were a number of productivity titles and even professional business software available.<\/p>\n<p>This particular ad is from the March\/April 1986 issue of Commodore MicroComputer and is for the VersaBusiness Series. This includes VersaReceivables, VersaPayables, VeraPayroll, VersaInventory, and VersaLedger II. I can&#8217;t claim to know anything about this software or what the difference was between the different versions for different machines but it was available for a lot of them including Apple II, DOS, CP\/M, Macintosh, TRS-80, and of course the Commodore 64. It wasn&#8217;t cheap, $550 if you wanted it all, but they were running a special 50% discount for the Commodore version in this ad so you could have had them all for the low, low prices of $225.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Commodore MicroComputer &#8211; Issue 40 &#8211; March April 1986 The Commodore 64 had a reputation for being a games machine and thus was often not taken very seriously but for at least the first several years of its life there were a number of productivity titles and even professional business software available. This particular ad is from the March\/April 1986 issue of Commodore MicroComputer and is for the VersaBusiness Series. This includes VersaReceivables, VersaPayables, VeraPayroll, VersaInventory, and VersaLedger II. I can&#8217;t claim to know anything about this software or what the difference was between the different versions for different machines but it was available for a lot of them including Apple II, DOS, CP\/M, Macintosh, TRS-80, and of course the Commodore 64. It wasn&#8217;t cheap, $550 if you wanted it all, but they were running a special 50% discount for the Commodore version in this ad so you could have had them all for the low, low prices of $225.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,4,7,10,30],"tags":[194,370,473,2628,600,2629,1070,2627,1833,2486],"class_list":["post-16604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-commodore-64","category-computer-arcana","category-dos","category-macintosh","category-trs-80","tag-apple","tag-c64","tag-commodore-64","tag-cpm","tag-dos","tag-kaypro","tag-macintosh","tag-the-versabusiness-series","tag-trs-80","tag-trs80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36080,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16604\/revisions\/36080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}