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From: porter@inuxd.UUCP (J Porter)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: bar code reader
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 17:05:18 EST
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Texas Instruments has a consumer grade bar code reader out
in a "Speak&Spell" type of product, but I don't know if you
can get just the bar code reader.  It is not conventionally
shaped (ie: it doesn't look like a wand) - instead it looks 
like a 3 inch plastic disk with a hump in it about the size
of a crayon.  The whole product sells for like $40 at
Children's Palace (et al.).  Has anyone tried to use this?

PS: Seems to me that I saw an article in the IEEE transaction
    on Consumer Electronics within the past year on the
    development of this inexpensive bar code reader.

Jeff Porter  (inuxd!porter)
AT&T Consumer Products
Indianapolis