Subj : GWBASIC
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Fri Nov 14 2025 09:42:40

RM> > I added a production program where you could put in the name and
  > > weight of the product you wanted (ceramics and pigments) and the
  > > program would write out the formula with the amounts of all the
  > > ingredients for a batch that size and print off 3 copies - for the
  > > Lab, Office and Plant to use..

RM > > Ironically that last one I threw in as an afterthought, I didn't
  > > really even charge extra for it. I left there soon after but I
  > > stopped in to visit a few years later and the other programs had
  > > both been updated/replaced but they were still using that one.
  > > Not something MS Office could replace I guess...   B)

MP>Yeah, getting a formula like that coded for a "reprogram" might have been too
  >much of a challenge for whatever they moved on to.

Yes, something like that has to be written specifically for a customer.
It would be too clumsy to try to duplicate the output in a typical
spreadsheet or database program.

I wrote one for a trucking company as well. They did snow plowing
in winter and one year they had the police stop by to ask if they
could talk to the driver who plowed out a place that got broken
into in case he'd seen something. This was quite a while after
the fact and they had a hard time sorting out who was where when
on that date and time.

I wrote them a program that could easily do that plus it could
answer questions like who worked how many hours over a given
number of days/weeks and which trucks were used the most and
who's property was plowed how often and when sort of thing..

That's a little more typical of a database program but it
was customized with menus offering the questions they needed
answers to making it a bit easier for them to work with.
They were not the most computer literate people there..   B)

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