Bar code readers (was: Re: Byte Jan 87 retrospective.

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Sun May 18 17:21:14 1997

On Sun, 18 May 1997, Bill Whitson wrote:
> On the line of interesting storage devices - does anyone remember the
> "scanner" that read strips of encoded data. I don't remember what it
> was called, but for a little while they printed some of these strips in
> Nibble. I think it was an Apple II only thing. I guess you could read
> and print these strips and they generated programs when you scanned
> them.

There were at least two of these
a. Oscar Databar, late 1993 and
b. Cauzin Softstrip, more like 1985-6
Received on Sun May 18 1997 - 17:21:14 BST