Re: Looking for some scoring help

isn't any ancient DOS-program capable of more than simple calculation?
Mine still works, and it communicates only with a printer, if you ask it to.


brian wrote:
> Given how quiet this list has been of late, I hope you'll all forgive
> me a borderline off-topic post, but if what I'm trying to research
> exists, I'm absolutely sure that someone on this list will know about
> it! I think the chances are remote in the extreme, but just about
> worth the e-mail. I know nothing about it given that it's almost 20
> years since I last played offline bridge.
>
> Some background: I'm a mentor for a version of Precision that's been
> taught on Bridge Base Online for a number of years now. Recently a few
> of us decided to get together and document the system in some
> print-on-demand books which are available via Amazon. You can imagine
> that we were a bit surprised to get a mentoring request from the
> mother of a guy who's currently doing time in low-security Federal
> prison! Anyway, I said I'd take him on, and it's his request for
> information that I'm passing on.
>
> The rules in prison are that they are not allowed computers above a
> simple calculator, the only thing they have access to is a closed
> e-mail system through which they can exchange simple e-mails with the
> outside world. At the moment they are scoring the prison duplicates
> the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.
>
> Is anyone aware of any aid to scoring duplicates which CANNOT (Bureau
> of Prisons rules!) be networkable or capable of being programmed in
> any other way? I've told them that I think it highly unlikely, that I
> expect scoring programs to run on a computer are many and varied, but
> they're not allowed that. It has to be *dedicated* hardware, and of
> course still commercially available.
>
> Thanks for any info... but I'm not holding my breath! :(
>
>
> Brian.
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