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  Re: GWBASIC
  By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Tue Nov 11 2025 09:46:21

 > 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..
 > 
 > 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)
 
Yeah, getting a formula like that coded for a "reprogram" might have been too
much of a challenge for whatever they moved on to.
 
The last place I worked was trying to get their system "modernized" which meant
moving off of a mainframe to a server based, packaged system.  When I left,
they were still leaning heavily towards leaving at least one system the way it
was because it was too complicated for the users to explain and likely too
complicated for anything the "packaged" product had ever attempted to
replicate.
 
Mike[21~
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