Re: Apple Scanner on a IIgs?

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5r1d1l$n11@freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
Michael Elliott <cv985@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>A flatbed scanner that is Apple, says only "Apple Scanner" on it, the
>newer, platinum, Lserwriter II-type stle case, and it has
>2 standard SCSI ports and what looks to be a serial port.
>Will this work at all on a IIgs?

   'Work' is a very relative term. Apparently the System 6.0 Golden
Master CDROM has a small program that can talk to some Apple SCSI
scanners, but it can only scan some stuff in and put it on the screen,
no capabilities to save. [It may also require an Apple SCSI board, not
the RamFAST, but I'm not sure on that] The Quickie software only
appears to talk to devices using the same (non-SCSI) interface.

   If you have access to scanners and image editors on other platforms
(aka Photoshop, which is the best program I've ever used for image
editing), you may want to scan, resize, and colorreduce on them, save
as a .GIF, and let Convert3200 on the GS read the picture in.

Nathan Mates
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