{"id":286,"date":"2011-07-01T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-08-07T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:00:50","slug":"infield-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/286\/infield-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Infield Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infield was a programming language for handheld computers in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

It was originally developed by National Training Services, a Sydney-based company. They later shortened their name to NTS and later still, became Infield Solutions.
\nThe language grew out of an idea from the Managing Director, Peter Mottlee. He wanted a Generic Capture Module that would run on a handheld device and which could be used by different users for different purposes. What was common was data entry and storage.
\nGCM was further genericised and became Infield.<\/p>\n

The following are some screenshots from Infield back then.<\/p>\n

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The startup screen showing the licensee, and the applications list.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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These two are data entry pages: numeric and alphanumeric.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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This one is a sample screen showing just some of the things that were possible. It could also integrate with a GPS receiver and store geo-coding information along with information entered by the user. This was a pretty good trick at the time as GPS was still primarily a military system with negligible civilian use back then.\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Infield software ran on a range of handhelds including, Symbol, Norand, Husky, and TouchPC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Infield was a programming language for handheld computers in the 1990s. It was originally developed by National Training Services, a Sydney-based company. They later shortened their name to NTS and later still, became Infield Solutions. The language grew out of an idea from the Managing Director, Peter Mottlee. He wanted a Generic Capture Module that … Continue reading Infield Software<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sydneysmith.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}