hi roger and alan, and all, thank you for the delightful thoughts on the scanner. in the midst of frustration you gave me chuckles. i just got a new computer, scanner, printer and digital camera though the camera has not been delivered yet which is just as well since i am totally mystified with what i have. the thing i like best is the red light on the bottom of the mouse. i am waiting for a new battery too as the date and time don't work either. it has been a week of total computer immersion and there ae no longer manuals to go with the stuff. i don't know what people with no computer experience do, they must be lost. my knowledge is scanty at best but my other mac was 7 years old. alan your words about the dust really struck a chord because when the old one was dissasemble the wires under the desk were swimming in grey fuzzy stuff, most embarrassing since my mac guru got covered with it. i have scanned photos of my puppy but they are too big and i have to figure out how to make them smaller before i send them.
we have 30" of new snow, how much did you get in venice? i was outdoors throwing snow around and twirling around in it and that probably caused it to fly over to venice, the power of the wind you know. bests, carol :) xxoo > alan bowman wrote: > > ah the joys of peripherals...pt2 > > the good bit is when you get your scanner finally working . > you've found the light, it's on. > you tried the 'test' program and the scanner made the appropriate > whirring noises. > you've heard the clever scanny bit inside moving. > you've placed the thing to be scanned on the bit you're supposed to > and you're about to take you first tentative steps into flatbed > scanner territory. > > then you notice a flashing light on your printer.. > "but there's plenty of paper", you think to yourself > you press the reset button > the printer resets itself > it beeps, > there's a pause. > > > then that little light starts to flash again > out of curiosity you decide to test the printer... > > not a sausage > just a beep and a flashing light > > you then spend 1/2 an hour looking for the scanner manual you tossed > so casually aside after believing that you knew it all simply by > reading the first few pages whilst making a cup of coffee, changing > the cd in the player and trying to catch up with the news on tv > > after realising that there was in fact a reason for connecting the > scanner, printer and zip drive attached to your parallel port, in the > way described in the manual, and with heavy heart you begin to drag > out all the furniture whilst trying to ignore that there is a dead cat > behind your desk (further inspection, after a heavy bolt of static > electricity has stuck it to your sweater, reveals this to only be dust > and obviously someone else's hair)... > > my scanner went on sick-leave recently, came back without warning, but > now it doesn't whir, it makes a horrible rasping sound, creaks and > groans and produces very warped 'pre-scan' images. it scans ok, but > it takes an age and the neighbours complain about the noise. > > anyway, that killed a few minutes that where supposed to be dedicated > to producing henry flynt's web site :-) > > > alan > -- carol starr taos, new mexico, usa [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://laplaza.org/~datastar/index.html
