Re: Hand held scanners IBM/Apple2Gs compatiable

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>In article nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) writes...
>>   As far as I've heard, that list has zero entries in it. The only
>>handheld scanners that worked with A2s had their own interface cards.
>
>    Actually, the only thing Apple II-specific with scanners such as
>the Quickie and LightningScan are the interface card. Both these use
>the Omron 1700 scan head and can be used on a PC or Mac.
>
>    You would need a different interface of course, but the actual
>hand-scanner is a generic device. When used on an Apple IIgs you 
>get either 320/640x200 with 4-bit greyscale, though not sure what
>it's capabilities are on a different machine  (8-bit greyscale?).
>I'm remember Vitesse offering an "IBM upgrade" for their Quickie
>scanner, consisting of an ISA interface card and software. If 
>you own a LightningScan, it should work equally as well. This 
>should allow you to share the scanner between a GS and PC.

Yes, this was around the time when they were offering the "color
Quickie" upgrade that allowed the Quickie to generate 3200 color
pictures by a 3 pass filter method.

Quickie is compatible with both the Apple IIe, the GS, and the
PC, the difference between each version being the interface card.

Nate, check the literature: this cross compatibility was mentioned
in incider several years ago, when the Apple was still hot.