On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
>> Scanning/OCR on Macs was way ahead of the state of the art on PCs for
>> the time, but it was still nowhere near as good as devices today are.
>
> Scanning on PC at the time was definitely a vale of tears.
There was a cool, low-cost (and low-res) scanner for the Mac back when
it first came out called ThunderScan. You simply replaced the printer ribbon in
your ImageWriter with a similarly-shaped scanner, and fed the paper to be
scanned into the printer. The software moved the printer head as if it were
printing, but instead it was scanning the paper line-by-line.
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Thunderscan.txt
( -or- http://j.mp/9Cq399 )
All in all, a pretty cool hack, even if it was slow as hell.
-- Ed Leafe
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