Hey Ed - thanks for that link and what you wrote - as both made for a VERY Interesting read! I get a kick out of some of the wild stuff we (us computer folks) did during the early days of personal computing (as opposed to saying PC) history!
:-) -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 11:19 AM 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 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a14071a1...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
