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From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Mr. Spench)
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Subject: Re: Scanner and Laptop
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.205702.24799@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 20:57:02 GMT
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In <1991Apr18.202717.23779@odin.corp.sgi.com> portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:

>In article <853Gr*yr1@cs.psu.edu>, cho@sol4.cs.psu.edu (Sehyeong Cho) writes:
>|> Is it possible to use a scanner with a laptop? (Mine is T1000SE)
>|> If not, what is the requirement, in terms of processing power,
>|> means of connection etc.?
>|> 

>I have a T1000XE.  I looked into purchasing a scanner a little while
>back.  I discovered that every scanner for IBM PCs and compatibles
>uses a bus-card interface and probably draws a lot of power.  I don't
>know of anyone that makes a scanner which has its own power supply
>and interfaces via the parallel port (or the T1000SE/XE/LE expansion
>So for right now, I think the answer is no, unless someone knows
>something I don't.

Mike (and anyone interested),

We had a scanner in the lab that hooked up through the parallel port, or to
a SCSI port.  It's not in the hardware lab anymore, so I don't know who makes
it. We were using it to test out the bidirectional capabilities of the 
4D/35 parallel port (compatible with a PC).  The scanner is now probably in 
the Software lab.  It was a full page scanner, by the way. 

>\/  Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com


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