On Sep 21, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote:

>> - Dave (still remembers the days of handheld
>> document scanners)
>
> Yep, I had one of those. I remember vainly attempting
> to stitch images together with it. It was a joke. And
> the OCR program was laughable.

We used to get all sorts of funky effects by deliberately dragging it  
around in arcs, going backwards, etc.

At the time it was the only (relatively) affordable way we had to  
embed graphics into the documents we were creating.  IIRC it required  
a dedicated ISA card: none of this FireWire rubbish!

> Ah, those were the days...

Not really; I hadn't discovered sambuca ;)

- Dave


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