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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "handy scanners"
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Date: 30 Dec 88 23:10:59 GMT
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In article <10778@s.ms.uky.edu| david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes:
|What do people know about these tiny scanners I'm seeing advertised
|in the magazines?  What sort of interface do they use?  How hard is
|it to get programming information?
|
|i.e. I'd like to think about getting one and if software doesn't already
|exist to interface it to an Amiga to write it myself.

The "handy-scanners" need a board to work.  The board itself is pretty easy
to do, and in IBM PCs uses either serial interrupts or DMA.  ALL the ones
for the PCs are made by the same company in Taiwan, and then are OEMed to 
various manufacturers [LOGITECH for example, see their ads in BYTE]. 
The prices vary from $199 to $399. They capture about 4in by 11in at the
smaller res.  They can work at 200, 300 and 400 dpi [more dpi -> less
vertical distance].  Our company is "thinking" about producing one of these
things for the Amiga, though we don't really know whether the market is
large enough.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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