Software to manage a Whisky collection

I'm using iPhoto on a Mac for this, and it works surprisingly well. Well, for me, anyway. Picasa (a Google app) might work in a similar way, especially if it allows you to add notes (and search on the contents of notes). I've never used it though so I can't say if it does, sorry.

Jim

Not really sure what you mean by "manage" but I would think a simple database utility like Microsoft Access could easily handle that number of malts.

I don't know if this is of any use to you?

Cheers, Tony

Although my 'collection' is less than 2% of yours, I've been using Peatfreak for a couple of years. It keeps track of my whiskys, with space for ratings and notes, etc. Plus the webmaster is very helpful.

Slainte.

I use Access for my modest collection and past bottles. You can also use nearly any spreadsheet to easily set up columns unless you are writing lengthy tasting notes, then a true database would be better. Any modern spreadsheet can handle thousands of entries.

Right. I would recommend FileMaker Pro which I find easier to use than Access. It's too bad that we're not neighbours, I would have been most interested in doing this for your collection like I did for my father's as a Xmas present. But it really is easy enough to do it yourself.

Benjamin

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Hi all, thanks for the feedback, BTW sadly it's not my own collection, it belongs to a friend of mine who is not very computer literate and asked the question. I am know as a computer freak but they tend to forget it's mainframes only that I know about ;-) I apologise, I should have been more clear in defining 'manage'. I want to manage the collection indeed. This means noting down anything that describes the bottle, distillery, name of bottling, bottler, date bought, price paid, tasting notes, picture(s) of the bottle, alc%, volume and then be able to add new data fields I think that's necessary. I will take a look at MS Access and Filemaker, maybe I can get it to work (I suspect it will not run on a 3270 screen though. Sorry, attempt to make a mainframe joke). I looked at Peatfreak (thanks for the tip) but I'm afraid it does not do what I want. Regards, Hans

OK, startup your TSS/360 session in emulation mode and sysgen a VM session in which you can run your DOS emulator. Then you can start a database program.

Access will handle all that nicely. The cheaper versions usually do not support inclusion of images.

Hi,

If you are abel to read german, you may find this very useable:

It is MS-Access based, small, free and fine (imho)

Horst

I doubt there's a DOS emulator. Sure you don't mean OS2? Would hate to send a fellow whisky aficionado on a goose chase.

Umm .. wrong DOS?? DOS was the Disk Operating System long before there was OS 360 or TSS 360. Ran only on small (???) machines in the 60's. (Small meaning in capability, definitely NOT in size!) We had a DOS emulator on VM and on TSS virtual machines. Ahhh - the good old daze.

nick

Something that we are creating - give us a few months!!