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VERIFY is a method that was invented and used quite extensively in the 1960s and 1970s with the IBM Keupunch and IBM Key Verify machines. The Keypunch operator would produce a card deck keying one character at a time, filling a card then ejecting it to be replaced by another card that they would continue to keypunch until the job was finished. Because the data was crucial, it was decided that after the keypunch operator finished, that same card deck would be passed on to a Key Verify operator that would repeat the key sequences of the keypunch operator; the only difference was the the Key Verify machine would ready the card and accept the keystroke, compare the result and would notch the card when differences were encountered. At the end of the Entry/Verify operation, the card decks were traded back and forth until there were no notches in the card deck indicating a clean "entry" of the data. ACT2˛s VERIFY operates in much the same spirit except not cards are produced and no notches are necessary. The VERIFY operator will, however, repeat the ENTRY operators process. And like IBM's systems of the '60s ACT2˛ will use one operator to verify another operators accuracy and thereby improve the accuracy to the data captured. In this manner, Hence EDP's ACT2˛ reduces to virtual elimination, typographical errors induced by operator carelessness and reduces those caused by poor handwritten orders. VERIFY in ACT2˛ is optional. If a user organization feels that their operators have superior capabilities and that they make very few key errors, then VERIFY can be bypassed by the setting of a process flag by management. |
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