[comp.sys.mac.programmer] background bar code reading; myth or reality?

ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley) (05/22/91)

Hey folks.  I work for the coolest radio station in the world, and
we'd be even cooler if we didn't have to spend so much time making
charts.  I want to start putting bar-codes on our records, and use a
bar-code reader to put the data into a waiting and willing macintosh.

Unfortunately, I don't have a dedicated mac, and I don't think I ever
will.  We don't even have enough money to buy a cheap IBM.  So...

Is there any existing software that will take input from a barcode
reader and store it on a Mac in the background, while other people are
using the Mac for printing, word processing, excel macros, etc., etc.?

Or, if there isn't any such software, has anyone here written this
kind of background input gathering software, and could they send me
their source code?  You know I love you.

I had some trouble posting this.  I hope it doesn't appear twice.

-- 
Alan Aitken Ramaley
(415) 497-5265, P. O. Box 9217, Stanford, CA  94309
Senior, Symbolic Systems
Aquarius