I remember that. I learned many a fancy mapping trick trying to make a Ford 862 make sense to our scheduling system.
On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:19 PM, ken kinlock wrote: > YUP! Things were crazy in those early years: I remember doing EDI with FORD > where every control number > for every envelope, every document, every day was "1". > > ...Ken > > > Ken Kinlock > Electronic Commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain, SEO and EDI > > ________________________________ > From: Brian Lehrhoff [email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" [email protected]>; Michael Mattias/LS > [email protected]> > Cc: EDI-L [email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 8:56 PM > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Your EDI Pet Peeves (a survey) > > > > my g*d - i used telink. for 1990 it was actually very versatile. we had the > same problem that everyone else had - > how to move the data from a pc to anywhere else. we got pretty create to do > the sneaker netting that was > required. > > Brian Lehrhoff, EA ([email protected]) > Messaging Consultant 201-913-4506 > Upgrade your Quickbooks for 20% off at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com > Circular 230 Notice is located at http://ea.brianlehrhoff.com/230notice.html > > ________________________________ > From: Pete Austin [email protected]> > To: Michael Mattias/LS [email protected]> > Cc: EDI-L [email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 4, 2013 12:39 PM > Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Your EDI Pet Peeves (a survey) > > You are right. I worked for the first company that created an > off-the-shelf translator (Telink, Inc). The owners were some of the > founding members of the X12 committee. And Dale Sortland was very very > highbrow. He'd come in, holes in the elbows of his sweater. You'd ask him > a question and he's stand in the doorway, leaning, stroking his beard, > totally lost in thought. If you tried, after a few minutes, to interrupt > his train of thought, or step away, he'd just raise a finger. > > He was a helluva guy, and brilliant. If you think it through, the actual > structure of standard has changed very very very little over the years. > The ISA has never changed. Nor has the IEA, GE, ST, or SE (not that there > is a lot there to change). Heck, the only change to the GS was to increase > the date. They planned for the concept of sub-element separators, even > though they were not implemented for many versions. All of this in a world > of 1200 baud async modems with zero error correction. All of the focus was > on using no bandwidth, and no disk space. Back then, a 10 meg drive ran > nearly a grand. Small, flexible, capable. Pretty amazing really that it > got us this far. > > Frankly, the * was used because in that day and age, many systems were not > able to readily read or write non-standard characters. The * was one that > had very little place in a world where every character counted. Does > anyone remember Packed data? Now *that* was overkill. > > Pete > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Michael Mattias/LS < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > That's what you get when high-brow, "ivy tower" types put something in > > writing and leave it to the minions to deal with! :) > > > > Surely you are not suggesting people with exactly zero Real World > > experience are allowed to issue specifications - without adult > > supervision - are you? > > > > I'm shocked, shocked! > > > > > > MCM > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > ... > > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: > > , , , , , , > > > > Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: > > IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------------------------------ > > ... > Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: , , , , > , , > > Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: IS > REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
