10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
2:28 p.m.
you're entitled to your opinion, despite it's
deficiencies. I have no problem with that. But to some
people in some situations, speed is
paramount...scsi-boy.
--- Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:56, Chris M wrote:
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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
schematics available.
one,
recognise
:-)
I kinda doubt that even the old HP scanners had However, the operation of a scanner is not too
complex to reverse
> engineer.
> I guess that we still can't get you to accept
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, ...?
Votlage
> 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?
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
protection around
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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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