Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a544 From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: how to set up a remote terminal? Message-ID: <5355@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 1 Apr 91 11:49:11 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 46 In an article, Alan Ramaley writes: Alan: > I'm the music director at KZSU, Stanford's radio station. Alan: > Like any other radio station, we report charts to trade Alan: > magazines, and we also mail out a monthly chart. Our charts Alan: > are entirely based on airplay, so we need to keep track of Alan: > what DJ's are playing. Alan: > Alan: > Our present system involves putting new records in a Alan: > numbered "A-file". When DJ's do their shows, they write Alan: > down the numbers of the A-file records they play, and put Alan: > this list is a box. We come by, tally up all the records Alan: > played, and do a ranking by number of plays. Alan: > Alan: > The only problem is, this takes a lot of time, and it needs Alan: > people who know a lot to always be around to run the Alan: > tallying, and it requires honesty, and there's always Alan: > mistakes. So I want to computerize the process. Alan: > Alan: > I could put a mac in the studio with the DJ's; but I want Alan: > the expensive hardware locked in a room, for security as Alan: > well as maintenance reasons. Alan: > Alan: > The solution? Put a mac in my office, but connect a dumb Alan: > terminal in the DJ studio to it, so DJ's can input the Alan: > A-file numbers, but can't do anything else. So how should I Alan: > do this? [stuff deleted] Alan, you may want to consider using something like the Visidex bar code reader in the studio, and bar code the records. This way, your DJs only scan the label when they play a record. You download the scanned info into a database like Omnis to create your charts. This solution should be cheaper and more reliable than the terminal idea, and easier to implement/police. [I have no interest in Videx (or Visidex, or whatever com,pany makes those little credit card size scanners) or Omnis. Heck, I don't even use a spread sheet or database program - but I could if I wanted to!] Luck -- _________________________________________________________ | IMAGISTICS Business Theatre Technology | Rick McCormack | | Interactive Effective Compelling | Vancouver, BC | |________________________________________|________________| | UseNet: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.uucp | A O-L: Rique | |_________________________________________________________| .