I entered a program from an actual PCM magazine, and it averaged between 1.5 and 2 seconds per full line.
It depends on a number of things: - consistency .... with barcode wand holding angle and swiping speed. - contrast and clearness of barcode printing. - flatness of the magazine pages. If you have to fight the magazine to lay flat, it will take longer. It also helps to use some sort of "straight edge" to guide the barcode wand in a straight line. Regards, PeterN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 22:55:25 -0700 > From: B 9 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage > Message-ID: > <CAG1tPevfnut4u-W9kW7oSsw-= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > <snip> > But... back to the topic at hand: bar codes. Does anyone have a barcode > wand and the time to test it out on PCM's Bar Code Listings > <https://archive.org/details/PCM-Magazine/1984-04_v1n10/mode/2up>? How > many > seconds does it take to enter a long program and how many bytes is the > program? I expect it will not be fast, but since it would only be needed > once in a while ? like if the Model 100 navigating the ship has been reset > and loses all programs in memory ? slow but dependable may be a reasonable > compromise. > > ?b9 > > >
