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"Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. ""But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers,"" I protested. ""You use one, don't you?"" he asked logically. Yes, I did; I'd been running my consulting business with it for two years. But that didn't, I explained, make me an expert. ""Think about it,"" he said. That's typical Coleman; he drops these studiedly casual ideas and just lets them lay there until you pick them up and wind up doing just what he wanted you to do all along. Sure enough, the longer I pondered the notion the more it appealed to me. OK, I wasn't a computer expert (I'm still not). But I was a computer user, in the transportation/distribution field; maybe from that perspective I might have some useful things to say to other transportation/distribution users and would-be users of computers. Thus was born the ""Computer Software for Transportation"" column. The first one appeared in the April 11, 1983, issue of Traffic World, and it's been a once-a-month schedule ever since. And thus, too, was ultimately born this book."

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Author:   Colin Barrett
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.493kg
ISBN:  

9781468473346

ISBN 10:   1468473344
Pages:   317
Publication Date:   14 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1: The Computer and the Transportation/Distribution Manager.- 1. The Computer as a Management Tool.- 2. Computers as Information Providers.- 3. The Computer and Time Management.- 4. Distribution Modeling Techniques.- 5. Transportation Cost-Finding and the Computer.- 6. Computerization of Transportation Rates—A Viewpoint.- 2: The Computer and the Transportation User.- 7. The Manager and the Technician.- 8. Demands on the Computer User.- 9. You Don’t Have to Be a Programmer.- 10. Be Your Own Computer Expert.- 11. Keyboardphobia.- 3: The Computer in the Organizational Structure.- 12. Justifying Computerization to Higher Management.- 13. “Selling” Computerization to Higher Management.- 14. MIS-Management and Mis-Management.- 4: The Start-Up Process.- 15. The Problems of Starting Up.- 5: Computer Security.- 16. The Failings of Security.- 17. Computers and Foreign Travel.- 6: Computer Software in General.- 18. A Guide to Programming “Languages”.- 19. Word Processing.- 20. Spreadsheets.- 21. Data-Base Managers.- 22. Free Software—How to Get It and Use It.- 7: Specialized-Applications Software.- 23. Some Rules for Buying Software.- 24. Shopping for Software—A Personal Approach.- 25. The Meaning of “User-Friendliness”.- 26. User Manuals and Their Problems.- 27. Aftermarket Support for Software.- 28. Things to Watch Out for With Software.- 8: Software Copying.- 29. About Piracy.- 30. The Importance of Backups.- 9: Some Lessons From Experience.- 31. Using a RAM Disk.- 32. “Bugs”.- 33. Monochrome Screens and Their One Color.- 34. Modems and Telephone Lines.- 35. Planning for System Upgrades.- Appendix A: How Computers Work (and Other Details).- Appendix B: “Ports” and “Peripherals”.- Appendix C: A Primer on Binary Math.- Appendix D: Hex Codes—AnExplanation.- Appendix E: All About ASCII.- Appendix F: Open and Closed.- Appendix G: Computers and Numbers and Errors.- Appendix H: EDI.

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