Stan Barr wrote:
Hmm limit
usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in. 600 dpi = 48mb per page.
One way to strike a blow
against the paperless office.
I remember reading about a system like that, wrote data as a pattern of
dots on a laser printer and read using a primitive scanner (it was a
while ago and definitely on-topic). Developed by someone in Germany
I think. A query in various newsgroups a while back turned up no info.
A german computer magazine published the listings this way.
(I think it was the "mc"). You scanned the page in, and there was a
software downloadable, which made same "meaningfull" files out of this.