On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 at 09:54:09, wrote:
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> a QL barcode reader (which
>dominic morris bought to see if he would get it to work with a Z88!)
Ah now that is a story.
Yes - it would work with any computer with an RS232 interface.
Dave Storton (DS Enterprises) was selling a 'light pen' at a ZX
Microfair very cheaply.
He had no idea what it was, but was clearly very professional,
originally expensive, and not a light pen.
It was a Telepen barcode reader.
I got the manual off the company, who still existed. This was a
discontinued model, but was the top of the range, and yes, very
expensive.
It was pretty unique in that it read full ASCII, and used a std RS232
interface. I wrote a QL handling program which would not only read the
telepen codes, but print them out. It could even print 30 or so chrs in
one line, and it could handle whole Basic programs 30 chr at a time.
I bought all his stock of readers and sold them all to the QL community.
Quite a few needed extensive repairs.
In fact one QL owner (Leon Jaeggi), who had a whole series of networked
QLs as part of his kitchen equipment sales business, bought a whole
batch of them.
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