10 Jun
2006
10 Jun
'06
6:31 a.m.
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 22:56, Chris M wrote:
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
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wrote:
and uses chips that I
schematics available.
and monitors, ...?
and generator.
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> > 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 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 one,
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 > 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? Votlage
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 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
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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