[REWARD] Request for documentation - update - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Apr 2012

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I haev no moral objections to SCSI at all (it's fully docuemtned, it's 
not over-complicated, there are standard ICs to talk to it, or you cna do 
it all in simple logic chips, etc). The problem is that very few of my 
machines have SCSI interfaces.

Also, for a machien to be useful with a scanner, I would have thought it 
should have a high resolution graphics display. Of the machines I use, 
the PERQ probabl;y has the heighest pixel count (1280*1024),. but that;'s 
only 1 bit per pixel. The I2S units have a better colour resolution, but 
only 512*512 pixels. They conenct to a PDP11 (or will do when I get round 
to restorign them).

Of course the problem is that there are not likely to be any drivers for 
a scanner on any of these machines. I realsie the scanenr commands are 
documented (at least for some scanners), but writign the drivers is not 
something I want to undertake....

I've got a SCSI scanner plugged in to a MicroVAX 4000. Using the open source
"sane" portable scanning package, suitably tweaked for VMS, I can scan quite
happily. It's not fast - I've never gotten around to looking into speeding it
up. My MV4000 doesn't happen to have graphics capability but the TIFF files
...
 from the scanner can be displayed using a clustered
VAXstation 3100 which does have graphics or displayed on a remote X-Windows server
or transferred to
another machine for viewing.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.