ignatz@ihuxx.UUCP (08/03/83)
This isn't really that crazy, guys. I'm a member of the Windy City Darters, a league of about 2,200 dart shooters in Chicago. They're currently doing all league-related activities *by hand*. That includes recording member information, weekly scores, dues, membership cards, etc. Not only that, but at the rate the league has been growing, this load will double in a year or so. I, and a few others, agitated so strongly for a computer system that the Board agreed--and appointed us to the committee to design the system. What I'm looking for is any information on any other dart leagues that may have done something similar to this, on the same scale. Specifically, the software must facilitate: -Weekly scoring tallies and standing sheets for about 300 teams -Accounting functions, such as dues collection -Individual player tracking for team ranking, etc. -Database support to allow either relational or hierarchical searches on: o Sponsor information o Team information o Player information Obviously, there are a lot of details I've left out; but I wanted to give an overview of the kind of thing we need. We're not talking about an Atari program for your Saturday night bowling team. There will be adequate hardware to support rather extensive applications: -128K RAM (minimum initial configuration), 16-bit system -10 Mb Winchester (minimum) -1 (or more) floppies at 300 Kb or better If anyone has something available, either public domain *or for sale*, please let me know. Of course, it's highly possible that software written for other, similar league-oriented sports may be flexible enough to be modified; If you've information on something like that, we welcome it. Thanks, Dave Ihnat ihuxx!ignatz (312) 784-4544
ian@utcsstat.UUCP (08/07/83)
To build up this software, a good place to start might be the Tennis Ladder software which is printed (in source form, of course) in the book "The UNIX System" by S. R. Bourne (author of Bourne Shell). (The book is also recommended as a general intro to UNIX for one's friends who've used computers but want to know UNIX is like -- see my review of it in the July '83 "Microsystems", page 28). Ian Darwin, Toronto (utcsstat!ian)