In 1994, Version 5 was released for WINDOWS, DOS, and MAC. This was followed in 1991 with Version 4, and in 1992 with Version 4.5. In January of 1989, Version 3 was released for the MACINTOSH as well as for DOS. The first copy sold was Version 1.8 in January 1987. Other people became interested in Grant Tracker as a way of solving their own grant accounting problems, so I decided to attempt to sell the program.
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This required that the user interface of Grant Tracker be very intuitive, and that the manual be very informative about basic accounting problems, e.g., how to handle Blanket Orders, how to handle students who work variable hours and months, how to reconcile the accounts in Grant Tracker with the monthly budget statement from the University, etc. A lot of improvements had to be made in Grant Tracker to accommodate the fact that some of the secretaries in the Division were not that comfortable with computers, and after all, they were secretaries and not accountants. Grant Tracker 1.0 was written in QuickBASIC, and was pretty crude by today's standards, but it did the minimal task of keeping track of our grants.
When the IBM PC's came out, I decided to computerize the bookkeeping for our grants. Programming computers was a hobby of mine, starting in the late 1970's with the Sinclair, and later the Morrow computer. After several large overdrafts on our grants, the faculty in the Division of Radiation Biology took over the accounts of their own grants. In the "good old days", I had several NIH grants running at the same time, and a number of employees, postdocs and graduate students, but our Departmental Administrator couldn't administrate.
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