Get the guy an old mac with an old scsi scanner. The OS doesnt need wiped
every year like windows, if he moves directories around it wont kill the
apps, no registyr problems etc. Those classic 68k/early PCI macs are SO easy
to get around on he should not have much of a problem (give away cheap too).
Just make sure he has an OS drive he should not touch and a work drive he
can do whatever he wants on. You can get him some older editing apps for
next to nothing on ebay. You really need the monitor screen to specify the
area that gets captured, to make sure it came in nicely, and to make sure
you dont have duplicates. Most older people who are computer shy are just
intimidated with newer computers that have tons of icons all over the place,
the classic mac interface and clean desktop isnt as intimidating. You also
dont have to worry about driver problems since everything on the older macs
have built in drivers or like scsi are auto detected on bootup.
No I am not a mac fanatic. I am very computer literate mostly from PC's but
for some users who dont want to even know about the hardware an old mac is
the way to get them started enjoying computers.
TZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allain" <allain_at_panix.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:34 PM
Subject: _offline_ scanning.
> With all this talk about Virtual Libraries, (I'm for them
> as long as the paper source is offered up to the list
> before discard*) a question comes to mind.
>
> Anybody offer a scanner that goes directly to disk,
> possibly via TWAIN over USB? Seems possible
> since there are digital camera solutions that do that.
> My dad wants to do scanning and is computer shy...
> the idea is that I would visit him semiregularly and
> offload/OCR/organize his work then.
> This would involve the destruction of NO manuals.
>
> John A.
> *And the Librarian replicates the
> storage to prudent backup media.
Received on Thu Jul 24 2003 - 23:02:00 BST