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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Scanner Advice
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:00:28 GMT
- Distribution: USA
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
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- I'm in the market for a desktop scanner. I also expect to
- buy a CDROM drive and a sound card in the next few months
- as well.
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- I want to do this is in a way that has the least likelihood
- of CONFLICTS and INCOMPATIBILITIES.
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- I originally thought I would buy an HP Scanjet since they
- make some very good scanners and I can get an employee discount.
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- But HP has a weird, mutant, neither-fish-nor-fowl interface
- for these things. It's kind of SCSI, but in a proprietary way
- that forces you to buy a card but which isn't standard enough to
- support other SCSI devices or device drivers. Nor can it use
- standard SCSI. This is well and truly bizarre and even though
- I work here I'm not going to try to explain or defend it (I'm
- in trouble now 8-) )
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- How do other scanners do it?
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- Most of the "SCSI" interfaces on sound cards are hobbled, low
- bandwidth ones which are only designed for CDROMs. They usually
- lack the drivers and speed for anything faster.
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- Most of my slots are filled -- I have a modem and two video cards,
- and two printers, and tape drive. I don't have a lot of slots left.
- Lot of these cards have their own ROM BIOS's and special drivers
- taking up precious address space in the upper memory area.
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- Does anyone else here have a truly "stuffed" system? Could you
- describe what you have and how you do/did it?
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- ---peter
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