Re: No 5250-based applications

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  Most of us in the IT industry make the mistake of judging data entry
>  performance solely on how quickly the key strokes can be made by the user.

I am more interested in ACCURACY of transcription than SPEED of it.
  
>  Keep in mind display recognition plays a very big part, especially to a
>  novice user.

Well I try to tell management & the users that what we need is not a way to 
do the same work that they have been doing for countless years, transcribing 
data from documents like a glorified typist, but find a way for the computer 
to do the drudgery work ... scan it in from whatever form it comes to us, 
then a human being clean up the parts that could not be automated, due to bad 
handwriting, smudges etc.

in other words rethink what we are doing based on evolving technology 
capabilities.

But we end up with doing the same old thing on a replacement user interface 
because of pricing reasons.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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