Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Oct 5 13:14:57 2004

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
> > I once was wondering if a backup software could be written that writes
> > to laser printer.
> >
> > Backups would be read in with a scanner..
> >
> > Hmm limit usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in. 600 dpi = 48mb per page.
> > One way to strike a blow against the paperless office.
>
> I actually have a customer who does something like that!!!
>
> They do a "paper dump" of some critical (to them) inventory stats
> each evening, and those printouts (which are standard A4 forms)
> contain only machine-readable info consisting of barcodes and
> something that looks like, indeed, papertape "strings"
>
> They have a scanner thing that can read those forms. I believe
> every day, the forms from the previous day get sent to HQ, by
> regular mail ;)

Sounds intriguing. I'd be interested to know what hardware they are
using. Certainly not the Cauzin SOftStrip?

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