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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Scanjet Scanner on HP-UX?
Message-ID: <916@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 22:30:39 GMT
References: <1141@csuchico.EDU> <12173@cup.portal.com> <1460@zen.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1460@zen.UUCP> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes:
>HP does it again....
>
>This is something I gave up on a long time ago. The ScanJet uses a screwed up
>Centronics interface which allows data transfer in *BOTH* directions and thus
>needs a special PC interface to talk to it. There is almost no way to connect
>the scanner to anything except a PC or a MacIntosh.
>
>Why don't the different divisions talk to each other? This was a peripheral
>that should have been using the HP-IB interface ("What, use something that's a
>standard? Nah, lets botch it").
>
>What are HP going to do when Desktop Publishing gets going on the workstation
>market? Do HP care?


Apparently you didn't read the May, 1988 issue of "The Communciator", the
journal from the HP Tech Group that you receive free of charge as an HP
computer customer.   On p. 17 in that issue there is a neat article called
"HP 9190A ScanJet on Series 300 HP-UX (Turn Your Workstation into a Copier",
by Bob Niland, HP.

There you have your description -- hardware, C program listing and all! The
idea is to get an ISA EX-7032 DIO-I Centronics interface, do a bit of
rewiring (thoroughly described) and then use your ScanJet on the 300!

We have a ScanJet hooked up to a PC and I have a DIO slot left so I might
try it.  If so, I'll come back with reports to this newsgroup.

I agree that I would have preferred an HP-IB, but then the PC market
would have been closed....  (Marketing, marketing ...)


-Bo
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