Re: Scanner - Changed Beehive subject

[Jim Stallings <jim@mcws.net>]

I remember using that scanner also.  There was a program that you worked with
to put things in the format you wanted.  I also did a project that dealt with
this also.

Strange how reading the messages, brings things back

Ron Dozier wrote:

> >
> > We also had an Opscan (-17? -12/17?) scanner.  George wrote
> > a RSTS device driver for it.  [That assembly code was one of
> > the Great Mysterious Puzzles that I endeavored to understand.]
> > We used it to scan in surveys.  I don't know for sure, but I doubt
> > that we used it for scanning in test forms, because that wasn't
> > the Delta way:
>
> Quite the contrary.  ED Baker wrote a LOT of test scoring programs for
> standarized tests for the scanner.  I modified ED's code to create output
> for Pat Craven's PhD thesis again using scanned tests. That thing was too
> clumbsy.
>
> Ron