Hi Glen
As the perpetrator(starter) of this 'old HP scanner thread' I would be
interested in getting a copy of that software for the 9190AU- I have the
scanner(recent find) but not the i/f card- on the off chance I do get the
card the s/w ware is I guess worth having on hand.
No urgency - just when you get a chance to find it. Sounds like I probably
only need the driver stuff- the runtime Win3.0 we can do without!
Dave Brown
Christchurch
New Zealand
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Goodwin" <acme_ent_at_bellsouth.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Old HP scanner
> > From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
>
> > John, both the Scanjet and the Scanjet Plus used a HP proprietary
> > interface. The card for the Plus is reputed to work for both the
> > original and the Plus. The reverse is not true. In both cases,
> > however, it is definitely NOT parallel port.
>
> I bought one of these used (MIB!) for $200 in 1994, for use in my
engraving
> shop. The card was 8-bit ISA and appeared to be some sort of half-baked
> SCSI. It was easy to configure if you happened to possess a working
> crystal ball ;>) The card-end of the cable was DB25, and the scanner-end
> was "Centronics" (you know what I mean by this term).
>
> The software included a runtime version of Win 3.0, which promptly crashed
> when run on our DOS-based 386/20. After installing the full version of
Win
> 3.0 on this peecee, the software ran perfectly. When we upgraded to Win
> 3.1 (I don't remember the reason for the "upgrade"), the software
generated
> an avalanche of error messages, then ran without error. As a side note,
> AFAIR the ScanJet was the only reason I installed Windows on this machine,
> which was used primarily to control engraving tables. All of the other
> applications were DOS-based, running under DesqView.
>
> All in all, the ScanJet was a nice piece of equipment for its time. I
> think I still have the software for it, in case anybody needs it.
>
> Glen
> 0/0
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 01:31:22 GMT