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[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:56, Chris M wrote:
> I havent been following this thread thus far, but if
> anyone is shipping a scanner to the UK (unless this is
> a joke and I havent gotten it yet) and its not at
> least usb 1.1 compliant, they need to reconsider.
> Blowing bucks to ship an older technology is just
> dopey as all get out. Dont mean to be insulting, but
> in the interest of he getting something done (as image
> files take a considera ble time to upload from the
> scanner to the puter) let it be usb. I dont have a
> spare unfortunately though.

I'll take a SCSI scanner over a USB1.1 one any day.  (Of course, PC parallel 
port ones are worse than either - both in slowness and in lack of 
compatibilty with Sane.)

They're not speed deamons, but all of the ADF-equipped HP ScanJets I've had 
(which have all been SCSI) work flawlessly.

Pat

> --- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
> wrote:
> > > > If some others would chip in on the shipping,
>
> I'd gladly send you a
>
> > > > scanner.  Would you prefer SCSI or "Centronics"?
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > I don't care, provided it comes with schematics
>
> and uses chips that I
>
> > > recognise :-)
> >
> > I kinda doubt that even the old HP scanners had
>
> schematics available.
>
> > However, the operation of a scanner is not too
>
> complex to reverse
>
> > engineer.
> > I guess that we still can't get you to accept one,
>
> even for free, without
>
> > open hardware source.
> >
> > > > Would you also like some early Pentium machines,
>
> a Beseler enlarger and a
>
> > > Pentium machines cannot be early :-)
> >
> > True
> > I meant relative to Pentiums.
> >
> > > > "dichroic" head, a Kodak Caramate, some printers
>
> and monitors, ...?
>
> > > As for the enlarger, I have enough problems
>
> hosuing my DeVere 504....
>
> > > > Howabout: a Fujinon holography camera?
> > > > 'course it's all 60Hz stuff.
> > >
> > > Does it _depend_ on the mains frequency? Votlage
>
> conversion is trivial (I
>
> > > have a 110V step-down transformer in the workshop
>
> anyway), frequency
>
> > > conversion can be more of an 'interesting' job.
> >
> > I'd be tempted to do it "mechanically", with a motor
>
> and generator.
>
> > 8" drives may need 50 v 60 Hz (or a change of pulley
>
> and belt).
>
> > But almost everything else recently is rectified to
>
> DC.
>
> > Most "modern" computers just want 5VDC, 12VDC, etc.
> > The only electronics in the holography camera is the
>
> power supply for the
>
> > laser tube.  And since I don't have the original
>
> tube, a different power
>
> > supply is not a very big deal.
>
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