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ju,� I <br />MEMO TO: Mayor & Council <br />FROM: Finance Director -Treasurer Brager <br />DATE: November 18, 1988 <br />RE: PURCHASE OF PERSONAL COMPUTER FOP. PT"KS AVr' <br />RECREATION DEPARTMENT <br />When the present computer system was purchased from <br />computoservice, Inc. gistration6andthe <br />schedulingzacted softwarefor <br />for the Parks <br />development of rag <br />& Recreation Department. The software was delivered to the City <br />in the Spring of 1987. Throughout 1987 and 1988 Parks & <br />Recreation staff and I have dealt with Computoservice staff <br />regarding problems with the software they developed for us. To <br />enumerate all of the problems encountered is not possible in a <br />short memo. The problems are such that registrations have been <br />lost and class lists are inaccurate. Parks & Recreation staff <br />began to manually keep track of registrations. <br />In mid October 1988, Computoservice "threw in the towel" and <br />—, offered a full refund on the amounts paid for <br />the <br />e softwareoffered <br />sand <br />uggested we find other software. Compry <br />assistance in reviewing software and offered a personal computer <br />at cost should the software chosen require personal <br />computer <br />different than the one presently used by the Parks <br />ion <br />Department. <br />Parks & Recreation Department staff has conducted a search for <br />registration. and scheduling software. This search involved <br />looking at approximately a half -dozen software packages. After <br />evaluating software packages they have chosen a package called <br />"Student Manager" from Aceware System:. in Manhatten, Kansas. <br />software <br />Presently the City of Columbia r�icitis using r <br />Pat:ts in their recreation <br />successfully for registering p`' <br />programs. Cost of this software package is $995. <br />The requirements for a personal computer to rut. the "Student <br />Manager" program are: 512 KB Ram memory, a 40 MB hard disk drive <br />and an 80286 processor. The present Parks & Recreation personal <br />computer does not meet these requirements: it does not have a <br />B hard <br />aa8286 0new Personal rcomputer must belpurchased tosrun rthe program <br />fore, <br />and has only a <br />chosen. <br />Computoservice has offered a AST Premium, Model 145 personal <br />computer at their cost of $1,915 installed. It meets all the <br />re_,uirement to run the software. <br />Serveral area computer retailers sell the AST brand. The best <br />price I could find on the same machine was $2,345 installed ifrom <br />PC Solutions. It would appear that Computoservice's price <br />competitive. <br />