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

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So you're going to give a %150,000 rig to a guy to do his job but a 
hardened tablet is just too much money to spend???  Or a guy can't speak 
English but he can write it?    As to a scale shack... I haven't seen a 
new scale installation in the past 35 years that relied upon pencil & 
paper to capture data.

Are there non-computerized facilities?  Sure.  But they're not relevant 
in this discussion.

The whole point is that the World has moved on.  Data-capture jobs are 
disappearing.  Walk through an Amazon warehouse, or even a Walmart.  
Watch how often paid employees, anywhere, routinely type data.  It just 
doesn't happen anymore.  Not even quantities at cash registers.  Sunday 
I bought food, including bananas.  At a self-checkout I had to type 
b-a-n-a.  That was it.  4 key strokes for $120 worth of food. The old 
days are gone.


On 6/27/2018 4:51 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> It's not that simple Alan.
>
> First off you are assuming the driver has a device that was provided by the
> company to use.
> Next you are assuming that message they send is formatted in such a way
> that it's usable
> Then you are also assuming the individual is English literate, a bad
> assumption in today's workplace.
>
> I have several customers in the same situation as Paul's.  It's not an easy
> problem to solve.  even if you give them a device (which get lost, bashed
> up, and abused in all manor of ways) and barcodes to scan for each
> character, it's still a crap shoot if the general population will be able
> to use it.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects