Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!tut!ra!tucos!abo.fi!vinsci From: vinsci@abo.fi (Leonard Norrgard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "handy scanners" Message-ID: <1271@abo.fi> Date: 3 Jan 89 09:44:44 GMT References: <10778@s.ms.uky.edu> <14375@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: Abo Academy, Finland Lines: 29 In article <14375@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: > 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 [...] > 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. A company in Germany sells handyscanners for the Amiga. They have an ad in Amiga 12/'88 (Markt&Technik) (which BTW is one of the best Amiga mags I've seen), on p. 135. They have two types: Handy-scanner type 2: black&white, recognices text. 598,- DM* Handy-scanner type 3: 16-graytones, recognices text. 898,- DM* * "unverbindliche Preisempfehlung", price may change "Dealer inquiries welcome" Their address etc. is: Reis-Ware Computer-Produkte GmbH D-5584 Bullay Phone: 0 65 42 / 20 86 telex: 4721802 reis d -- Leonard Norrgaard, vinsci@abo.fi, vinsci@finabo.bitnet, +358-21-654474, EET.