check it out

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Aug 16 11:17:05 1999

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, John Foust 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...

  A-la ThunderScan...a buddy of mine had one on his 1st-generation Mac many,
many years ago. It was neat...and quite effective!

          -Dave McGuire
Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 11:17:05 BST