> On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > >> 1) How easy/hard was it to handle basic networking in 1995?
I worked with a well-known insurance company with thousands of employees standardized on Macs in the '95 - '97 timeframe. They ran a lot of FoxPro/Mac apps. They didn't have any trouble with networking. >> I'm basically looking at two machines, a Color LaserJet (or another >> brand of color laser printer if one was available for the Mac), Perhaps an Apple Stylewriter, a color inkjet. The earlier ones were rebadged Canons, the later ones, HP DeskJets. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_StyleWriter_6500. See the references at the end of the article for some other good links. and a >> scanner. Could a network handle all of these things, or would it have been >> better/easier to just hook a scanner to one machine and use an A-B switch >> of some kind on the printer? In the latter case, file sharing could be >> done with diskettes, of course, but sharing across the network would be >> easier. Macs were just as easy to network in those days than DOS machines, imho. >> >> 2) How sophisticated was scanning in 1995? What about OCR? I've never thought OCR was very successful. B&W scanning was pretty commonplace, using big HP flatbed scanners, it was a pretty stable and established techology. Made huge TIFF files no one had enough disk space for. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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/[email protected] ** 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.
