Re: What is this hardware?

[Willie Yeo <w.yeo@qut.edu.au>]

tws wrote:

> I have a PEN that plugs into the GamePort of the Apple II
>
> It shines a red light at whatever you point it at.
>
> It returns an ON for PushButton2 when it is pointed at WHITE paper
> It returns an OFF for PB2            when it is pointed at Writing on
> paper.
>
> Is this a bar code reader?  I know it is NOT a light pen, because it
> supplies a light source, and it doesn't work properly as a light pen
> (wont detect 'light' from the monitor)

    You may have a bar code reader. I have one by Barwand, Inc (I think
that's the company name). Never did used it much, knows it goes into the
game port, doesn't work well on an Apple IIgs though.