Masonry Magazine April 2008 Page. 41
Ah-ha momemt
ONE RAINY DAY, while visiting his in-laws in Florida, Pacetti took out a blank piece of paper and drew a wall section. He believed that, some how, you should be able to see the wall section in the computer, and the computer should be able to automatically do the take-off, inserting the numbers in the spreadsheet. Returning home, Pacetti contacted the friend who got him started with computers. After he explained what he wanted, his friend pointed him in the direction of a computer programmer at the University of Wisconsin.
Meeting with the programmer, Bill told him that masonry construction demands more detail than most other forms of construction. Explaining the importance of seeing the details on the computer screen, he asked the programmer, "Can you do it?"
This was back in the days of the DOS prompt, when computer monitors were dominated by a black screen with green characters in the form of commands. Both the operating system and the hardware lacked the capacity to do what Pacetti wanted. Still he pressed the question, "Can you do it?"
The young programmer simply responded by saying, "Do you know what this will cost?" Pacetti patiently reminded the programmer that he did not answer the question and, again, asked, "Can I have my wall section?"
The response came back that perhaps, in the future, with a new graphic interface, but not now. To draw the sections out numerically in DOS would take years and a sizeable investment.
While the programmer was right about DOS, his timing was off. The world was about to radically change in the early-1990s with the introduction of the Windows operating system, and shortly thereafter with the first Pentium microprocessor. The operating system provided the graphic interface Bill needed. Case Study, continued on p.42
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