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From: spellman@hplchm.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How about bar code printing and reading?
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Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 13:58:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 23 13:58:56 1987
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Hewlett Packard makes quite a few barf-code readers and printers.
I have used a wand on a vectra( HP's AT compatible) which ascified the
bar code making input as easy as from the keyboard. A lot of HP
printers will print bar-code. The laserjet makes really nice ones.
A look at The HP catalog would probably be worth your while.

A little trivia:
Did you know ... bar code was invented many moons ago originally for
keeping track of railroad cars. They needed a self clocking easy to
mechanically read encoding method and came up with bar-code.

				Miles Spellman