emwessel@cs.ruu.nl (Eric van Wessel) (12/03/90)
I would like to connect an Apple Macintosh SCSI flatbed scanner to my A590 SCSI interface. Does anyone know if this works? What software should I use to digitise ? Please E-Mail, thanks Eric van Wessel (emwessel@praxis.cs.ruu.nl)
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/04/90)
In <4425@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>, emwessel@cs.ruu.nl (Eric van Wessel) writes: >I would like to connect an Apple Macintosh SCSI flatbed scanner >to my A590 SCSI interface. Does anyone know if this works? >What software should I use to digitise ? Unless your scanner uses standard disk commands, which is unlikely, you will have to write (or have written for you), software to run it. There are two basic (as in fundamental, not as in language) ways to do this. The first, and perhaps the easiest for most, is to write a specific program that manipulates the scanner, collects the data, and so on. The second (more difficult for most, but more versatile), is to write a handler that talks to the device driver and to the file system, to act as a gobetween. Sounds like a fun project. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+