13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
7:05 p.m.
If you approach it as "dump a bunch of listings
in their face and lock
them in a room with noone to talk to", then yeah. ?(Reminds me of an
old Dick Van Dyke episode where he's laid off for the summer and has
to write marketing fluff for radio rectifier tubes.)
However, if you write an instruction guide and give a brief tutorial
on how to do this successfully, then it doesn't take knowledge of
assembly language, the 6800 mnemonics, or even Tektronix's crazy
mixing of assembly and BASIC.
This *isn't* rocket science and it *doesn't* require special knowledge
of computers to do properly. ?It does, however, produce much better
results with a little instruction and guidance.
I doubt that the transcribers would need to be trained at all. People
are pretty good at learning patterns, even if the symbols remain
unknown. In your example, I think they would quickly form a rule like
"JSR should generally be followed by something that looks like a name
with alpha characters". If the rule breaks from simple observation,
scrutinize further. No need to know what JSR means at all.
--
Will