3 Sep
2003
3 Sep
'03
3:31 p.m.
At 04:48 AM 9/3/03 -0400, Mail List wrote:
They did plug in
inline with the keyboard. If I found one that just worked, with no device
driver requirement,
just as though you had typed the characters on the keyboard, that would be
great. If it
were pen sized and shaped, so super small and compact, that would be even
better.
Does such a scanner exist? I'm getting kind of tired of devices that only
work with some
operating systems and not with others, or get left orphaned when a new
major release of
an operating system comes out.
I keep vintage machines around for just that reason, but my guess is just
what you describe is out there, in fact I think most older barcodes worked
just like that, faking keyboard input.