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Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!!

check Apple's user guide download section (linked to on our site)...but some of the older ones are only text...

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I guess I shouldn't have thrown out that bound Image Writer II user manual...

check Apple's user guide download section (linked to on our site)...but some of the older ones are only text...

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Odds are, you have no need to move them, and in fact 5 and 6 you should never ever move, even if you DO have need to move them, since if you move them the printer stops working.

~Chaplain Marchie

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They set the communication speed of the serial port, as well as a few other things. I put the pages I printed off in a box while packing so I can;t tell you exactly. Search for ImageWriter II DIP and you should find the tech note in Apple's Knowledge Databse.

Odds are, you have no need to move them, and in fact 5 and 6 you should never ever move, even if you DO have need to move them, since if you move them the printer stops working.

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Edited by - alcoa on 15 Mar 2002 11:03:05

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NEVER throw out for-real paper based docs! i've got all kinds of documentation for long gone hardware that i'm starting to look into re-acquiring along with some interesting docs for things i've never had, but found without the hardware. keep an old footlocker as a low table/techie hope chest kinda deal with some collectable bric-a-brac or your kid's artwork on top for misdirection of any misguided folks who don't share your passion for this crap!

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NEVER throw out for-real paper based docs!

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Well at the time, I didn't have an ImageWriter (still don't...not really wanting one either)...the manual smelled funny too

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back again: and you're gonna feel REALLY dumb when you finally score a thunderscan if haven't got a ribbon cartridge machine to swap it out and be able to play with it! if anybody finds an imagebanger wide carriage, GRAB IT! what a huge freakin' TOY with a thunderscan's red laser dot buzzing across a big @SS page!

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Edited by - FireWire is fast on 16 Mar 2002 21:11:50

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What exactly is a "thunderscan", again?

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Well, thank you, Sir!

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Early Desktop Scanners

Be careful of what you wish for or joke about because it might come true. In 1981, one author of this book, David Busch, proposed, but only in jest, a scanner built around a dot-matrix printer with a sensor replacing the printhead. Four years later, he found himself the proud owner of a device called ThunderScan, which operated in exactly the way he'd joked about, using the Apple ImageWriter.

This first deskt op scanner was slow (requiring many minutes to capture even a small image), captured only black-and-white (not grayscale or color) graphics, and was saddled with relatively low resolution. Alt hough wildly popular for a few years, ThunderScan eventually va nished from the scene as more advanced scanners became available. Some vestiges of the concept can be found in a few low-end scanner attachments for inkjet printers (costing less than $100 for the scanner add-on). These attachments can transform the hard copy device into a document grabber by swapping a few components.

The black-and-white images produced by ThunderScan have a distinctive look.
note: see image in post linked above -jt

Flatbed and sheet-fed scanners similar to those we use today followed within a few years, but the best of these cost $5,000 or more, at a time when you could purchase a new pickup truck for the same amount of cash. Desktop scanning didn't take off until the late 1980s, when Hewlett-Packard introduced the original ScanJet, which could capture up to 16 different gray tones and cost only a few thousand dollars ($2,500 to be exact). Good-quality grayscale scanning requires more than 16 different levels, of course, so HP followed its initial scanner product with the ScanJet Plus, which could capture up to 256 different tones.

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Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 17 Mar 2002 11:11:17

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