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From: dhp@ihnp3.UUCP (Douglas H. Price)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.wanted
Subject: machine reading a questionaire
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 15:05:49 EST
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I have an application requiring a machine-readable questionaire.  Does
the net have any suggestions as to what is the cheapest/easiest way
to go about this?  The application involves some medical data collection
using patient-supplied data.

Some specs:
	The input will be relatively low volume.  That is, only one or
	two questionaires will be entered into the system at a time.

	The questionaire should not be too annoying/complicated/clumsy
	for the patient to fill out.  For instance, those score sheets
	on which you fill in the little ovals with a No. 2 pencil is
	probably not acceptable (remember those things?)

	It should be able to interface with an RS-232 port on a micro.

	Because it will be used with a micro, the reader shouldn't cost
	more than the IBM-PC it will be used with.

I know, an impossible set of restrictions, but I am just surveying what
is available.

					thanks in advance,

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						Douglas H. Price
						Analysts International Corp.
						@ AT&T Bell Laboratories
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