THAT’s very, very impressive, Cj!
Yea, I was working at a warehouse for a big supermarket chain distribution center at the time. Keeping track of the union guys’ hours and productivity over three shifts was an all manual process of logging times and numbers of pices being loaded into trucks for delivery to the markets.I thought there had to be a better way, so my boss let me get a TRS-80. I built a system in BASIC on that (learning as I went), and eventually headquarters caught wind of it, so they moved me to HQ and had me redo the system on the mainframe for all the national warehouses... and COBOL just happened to be the official in-house language. It all worked out well anyway.