On Feb 11, 23:39, Dave Brown wrote:
> I recently acquired an old HP scanner- 9190AU. Can anyone give me more
> information on this unit- HP don't support it anymore. (it is old!)
>
> It looks to be almost the original Scanjet, as that's what it has on the
> front, HP Scanjet, with no letters or numerals following. The 9190AU
> designator is on the nameplate underneath. It has a Centronics
connector
> on the back and came with a std IBM printer cable, so I guess is a
parallel
> port version. But there is another oddball ( 20? pin) connector on the
back
> too. What's it for?
>
> I don't have any software for it but I believe the original drivers were
Win
> 3.1x only, so suggestions as to getting software to run it would be
useful
> as well.
It is indeed the original Scanjet; 9195 is the Scanjet+ Both used an HP
ISA card with a proprietary parallel interface, but SCSI-like protocols.
There is some support for it in SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). If you
look in one of my colleagues's ftp directoriues, you'll find a couple of
relevant files:
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/james/hp.diff
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/james/hporig.patch
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 15:50:45 GMT