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

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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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
> Cell 708-670-6978
> Office 409-267-4027
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth
> Martin
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 4:17 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the enhanced
> featuresof 5250
>
> 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