Re: Scanners & Woz Limited Edition

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

David Empson" <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote in message
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> william strutts <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
>
> > Any idea how this fan is attached to the power supply? I can seem to
> > figure out how to remove it. I was going to transfer it to my main IIgs
or
> > is it not worth it?
>
> Assuming it is the standard fan supplied by Apple: the fan itself is
> inside a black plastic case, and it is possible to remove the top half
> of the case, or to detach the case from the power supply without having
> to disassemble it.
>
> The case attaches to the power supply with four plastic clips, roughly
> in the corners.  There is a lever arrangement down the sides of the case
> (up against the power supply) which allows two of the clips to be
> released, by squeezing at the appropriate points.  I forget whether they
> are at the top or bottom.  While squeezed correctly, you can slide the
> fan up off the power supply.

That sounds like the fan. I tried squeezing the clips but it won't budge.
I wasn't sure if you disassembled the fan first and then removed the
clip. I didn't want to break it.

>
> As for your question on the Apple OneScanner: the only scanner software
> I'm aware of for the IIgs is "AppleScan", which Apple never finished
> writing.  Its scan facility is functional, but it can only display the
> scanned image on the screen, and doesn't have any way of saving it.

Not very useful.

> As far as scanner compatibility goes: it requires an Apple SCSI card,
> with the Apple Scanner driver installed in your system folder (it is
> listed in the Customize section of the System 6.0.x installer), and it
> may only work with the original Apple SCSI Scanner (which predates the
> "Apple OneScanner").

I do have an Apple High Speed SCSI card that is not in use.

> AppleScan was included on developer CDs as a working example application
> (possibly even with source code), and was also on the System 6 Golden
> Master CD (which has a copy of the Apple II portion of the developer CD
> at that time).

Is that available for download?
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