check it out

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 10:11:50 1999

At 11:49 PM 8/14/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Somebody once claimed on Usenet (alt.folklore.computers IIRC) that Woz
>had used his monitor as a scanner.

There were "scanners" from the Apple era that used the precise
motion of a dot-matrix printer's head to position a photodetector...

- John
Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 10:11:50 BST