19 Mar
2006
19 Mar
'06
11:19 a.m.
Just picked up an interesting piece of hardware.
It's a Thunderscan, The working end replaces the ribbon cartridge in an
Imagewriter, The page to be scanned is fed in to the printer and the
optical sensor then scans the page.
It came with a 512 Mac with the demo tape, and reset clip, and floppies
still in the box. It powers up OK, but after a while goes blank, a tap to
the side restores the screen.
Probably a dry joint on the 'analogue board' (PSU and monitor circuits).
It's the board mouted vertically, crack the case and look for cracked
joints, etc. There _are_ high voltages on this board, but I don't think
anything stays charged for long after you've unpluged it from the mains.
Has anyone else seen a thunderscan?
Never seen one, but I rememebr reading about it in Byte all those years ago..
-tony