Re: Looking for some scoring help
brian <[email protected]>
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On 02/03/2017 02:34 AM, Herman De Wael wrote: > 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. > Unfortunately they're not allowed a computer in prison - it has to be *dedicated* hardware. Brian. > > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Blml mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2016.0.7998 / Virus Database: 4756/13869 - Release Date: 01/31/17 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Blml mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml > _______________________________________________ Blml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rtflb.org/mailman/listinfo/blml