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The Argonne National Laboratory ATLAS (Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator system) began operations in the early 1960's with a single electrostatic tandem Van de Graff accelerator. Today the facility has 3 separate ion source injectors, and a linear accelerator system containing 64 superconducting resonators. Similar to the advances the accelerator has made over the years in its ability to accelerate charged atoms; the accelerator's control system has likewise advanced from potentiometers, meters, dials, switches, and indicator lamps to a ml-time process control system. The foundation of the real-time portion of the control system is Vista's Vsystem control software, which interfaces to a CAMAC (Computer Automated Measurement And Control) Serial Highway. The CAMAC subsystem provides the link between the computer systems and the accelerator components.Oracle Rdb and Paradox database software provide the capability for archiving accelerator tune information. The focus of this paper is on ATLAS's PC database software. This software is used to retrieve and archive accelerator tune configurations, and to reload accelerator components for new experiments.