Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced featuresof 5250

My daughter worked with her friend at 'The Pit' a large sand and gravel pit her friend's grandfather and Uncle own. They ran the scale shack and shockaroozie there be a computer in there! Even 30 plus years ago my wife would occasional scale in trucks at Keebler (You know right behind the hollow tree) and that was computerized already in the 1980s. A friend of mine worked on an app that used handheld scanners to record heavy equipment tags and captured fuel data from the truck and accepted oil and other maintenance items in the field and that was a decade ago at least. Even the Dairy farms around here have scales with computer interfaces. Truckers in the U.S. are no longer allowed to have paper log books now that the ELD law is in place.

The era of writing down stuff for data entry truly is ending and rapidly. You can hold on to your 5250 for the next 182 days if you'd like but honestly most are working hard at data capture and transfer not trying to figure out how to punch it in.

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On 6/27/2018 5:32 PM, Paul Nelson wrote:

Think scale shack at a landfill. Think garbage truck drivers writing down
which homeowner didn't set out his can during trash pickup day. Think
earthmover operators keeping track of how many loads of dirt they've hauled
while building a road.

All of this is very real world stuff.

Paul Nelson
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What would be an example of heavy equipment operators writing data down
on paper?  I am trying to imagine what, in today's world, that could
possibly be?


On 6/27/2018 12:58 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

For example shifting the data
entry down to heavy equipment operators down in a dirty environment