Canofile 510

Hi, This is kind-of-on-topic given the recent thread on scanning old documentation. I recently picked up a Canon Canofile 510 document imaging system, and associated laser printer and external MO drive. I think these were sold cira 1992-1995. It has a 1280x960-pixel mono LCD screen. You load up sheets to be scanned and it pulls them in one-by-one. Can scan both sides of each sheet at once. Can scan up to A3 size, but this is pretty lame; you must fold A3 sheets in half before feeding them in. Maximum speed is (from memory) 50ppm for normal res. Fine res (200x200dpi) is half that. That resolution is lower than ideal, but I could still find some use scanning old manuals etc.; an electronic version is better than no electronic version at all. The Canofile is very proprietary; it has a built-in magneto-optical drive which uses 512MB double-sided disks. Transfer of scanned images to a PC (and saving in a standard format) is possible. The disks, apart from being double- sided, are physically the same shape as NeXT MO disks; not surprising since Canon made NeXT MO drives. Unfortunately, investigations so far suggest that reading NeXT MOs on a Canon drive (connected to a PC, Mac, Amiga or whatever) may not be possible. If anyone in the UK (or USA I guess; sending printed matter from USA to UK costs about $1 per lb) has a loose-leaf manual or two that they would like scanned I can give it a try. Quality won't be amazing, but should be sufficient. -- Mark