8 Jun
1997
8 Jun
'97
4:13 p.m.
There are also 'classic' CCD cameras. There
was a thing made by
'Datacopy' that had a linear CCD that was mechanically scanned
across the frame (motor + leadscrew). There was certainly a PERQ
interface for this (made by GHS/Audre' in Canada), and I guess
others as well.
These solutions sound a lot more fun than a modern PC-based system.
Yes :-)
I remember the PCWs we used to have at school. They had small scanning
devices that replaced the print head on the printer. The computer
would make the printer scan the entire sheet of paper, line by line,
and in this way it built up the image...
Not the fastest of scanners, but fun to watch it go!
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8 Jun
8 Jun
4:21 p.m.
I remember the PCWs we used to have at school. They
had small scanning
devices that replaced the print head on the printer. The computer
Wasn't there a thing called a 'Thunderscan' that fitted into an Apple
Imagewriter and did essentially this?
I also remember a do-it-yourself project on this in Byte (back in the days
when it contained useful info...). I seem to recall it used a normal
dot-matrix printer, and a photosensor that you fitted onto the carriage.
I wonder how hard it would be to use a monitor (the smaller the better),
some optical bits and a photomultiplier tube to make a flying-spot
scanner. Seems like a fun project for a rainy day...
--
-tony
ard12(a)eng.cam.ac.uk
The gates in my computer are AND,OR and NOT, not Bill
11:09 a.m.
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, A.R. Duell wrote:
Yes, it worked quite well. I saw this work on a friend's MAC backing in
1986.
Sam
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I remember the
PCWs we used to have at school. They had small scanning
devices that replaced the print head on the printer. The computer
Wasn't there a thing called a 'Thunderscan' that fitted into an Apple
Imagewriter and did essentially this?
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