Remember, Larry, that these are the people too dumb to hire you for their OS
upgrades. They'd rather do things the hard way.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Nelson
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:30 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
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theenhancedfeaturesof 5250
<< not trying to figure out how to punch it in.>>
Tell that to my client's 9,000 users.
Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DrFranken
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Looking for like-minded programmers who use the
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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
www.Frankeni.com
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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
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