Info on a Scantron unit?

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Tue Oct 21 17:38:23 1997

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, James Willing wrote:
>
> > (disclaimer: it has a 6502 in it, so its kind of a computer B^} )
> >
> > Anyone out there have any information / docs. on a Scantron model 888mc
> > 'Test Scorer'?
> >
>
> God, I hate those! They score those damn "fill in the dots" tests. You
> remember those?

Remember them?!? I just finished filling out three of them!
(you will never escape them!)

> We still have a few in school. (I'm a senior in HS). I
> may be able to get more info tomorrow.

Any info appreciated.

> We have one which connects to a PC. It does the attendance. It looked
> like the PC was doing the running and the ScanTron unit was just a
> glorified punch-card reader.

Pretty accurate description for most of them, altho this one is a
self-contained stand-alone unit.

-jim
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