Re: Abaton Scanner

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <37t5vi$f7s@nyx10.cs.du.edu>,
Chris Deschu <cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
> 
> Actually, I'm sure I remember seeing a scanner application on the
> 6.0 golden CD which worked in conjunction with the scsiscan.driver
> which was included with 6.0.

Yes.  It is called AppleScanGS.  I haven't had access to a scanner, so
I've never looked at it.  Full source code is included.  It is
probably classified as "not for distribution", like everything else on
the CD-ROM.

>I think it required an apple scsi card and an apple scanner, but maybe
> it would work with other scanners. Are there any kind of standards
> for SCSI scanners, as there are for hard drives?

Yes, but only with the SCSI-2 standard, so it might post-date the
Apple Scanner.

Take CD-ROM drives as an example.  They are usually compatible for
data accessing, because the data commands are pretty standardised (they
are very similar to the commands for hard drives).  Audio commands are
a different matter.  Apple's CD-ROM drive pre-dated the SCSI-2 draft
standard, and Apple used proprietary commands to do audio functions.

SCSI-2 now includes CD-ROM audio commands, and Apple are using them in
the CD-300.  They dropped support for their own proprietary command
set, which means that you cannot do audio with the standard CD-ROM
drivers included with System 6.0.1, or with the Apple SCSI card
firmware.


The older Apple scanners may have a similarly proprietary protocol.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
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