Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Bill wrote:
I started with 3.1 since I loved the command line and did not actually
ever want to use Windows, but it was forced upon me for work. That
windows you could crash and still be able to re-boot to DOS and fix it.


Windows 1.0 was a joke. Somewhere I have an early review where it
stated something like, "Windows is the worst piece of crap ever foisted
on a computer user". 1.0 was a crude shell over an early version of DOS
for the 640 kB XT & early 286 computers.

Was that EGA level pictures way back then?


Same here, all 3 of my scanners will only work with windows and don't
have any UNIX/Linux type drivers. 1995 HP SCSI, 2000 Visioneer on LPT1,
and a 2 year old HP negative and paper scanner on USB.
Only my HP printer can be used in Linux, and yes the windows software is
still better for touching things up, and OCR.
And, as you said, Paperport is much better than even the HP software.


I was using my Visioneer 4400 USB scanner to scan parts for my
website, before I bought a camera with a good macro function.

Same here, especially if you want to dell anything on Ebay.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.terrell/Ephar.html shows a few items. I
got a decent image, with a good depth of field. Some of the items were
close to an inch high. The trick was to lay a white cotton tee shirt
over the item, and use my florescent ring light about six inches above
the shirt to provide a diffused backlight.

I have several early HP SCSI scanners, but haven't tested them. They
take up so much room on my 3' * 5' computer table that I only have room
for one computer. One has the adapter to convert 35mm slides to scans.

Pretty much the same size here , 33" x 5' and it is 'FULL'. 2 scanners
stacked, the old, big, document H.P. scanned and it's SCSI card are
stored. With the scanners, printer, KB, big CRT monitor, and the tower
case my desk if full up and I can barely get any paper on it unless I
flip the keyboard on it's side for a while.

Bill Baka