Re: Bar Coding, Wand Readers,Scanners, 348X terminals

The device connects into the keyboard cable, the 5250 type device
doesn't know, or care, how data gets into a prompted field.  No software
changes needed.

AFAIK, they all still work pretty much the same way and reading ability
and price are the only difference.

Portables, on the other hand (pun intended), tied to a wireless network
add new dimensions!

Pat Barber wrote:
> 
> Since good old bar coding has risen it's ugly head, I may as well
> ask the eternal question.. What's up with attaching a wand reader
> or scanner to a 348X type terminal for data collection.. I know
> this was done years back, but I was wondering if somthing newer
> had come up.... As I recall, it was pretty clunky to attach to a
> regular terminal but it could be done... Who are the current hot vendors
> on this subject ?????? What has to be done from the software side ???
> 
>         Curious: but it has come up in a customer meeting and I
>         had to act dumb(not very hard in my case).
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