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Skriven 2005-01-19 15:10:00 av August Abolins (1:229/390)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy J. Tellason
Ärende: USB to Parallel Scanner?
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I wouldn't encourge throwing out a perfectly fine scanner either.  If the unit
is suitable via OS/2 Warp4 or Linux, it might have a fine second home if
necessary.  But this particular usb--to-parallel situation is not my own; it's
a friend's dilema.  I have not heard back from him about what he decided to do.

I really miss my OS/2 2.1 and Warp3 systems.  I was only using 486 dx/2-50's at
32meg for both of them.  My OS/2 2.1 was running 24/7.  They were very
responsive and extremely reliable machines.  But, unfortuantely, scanner /
cd-rw / and usb support was a pipe-dream at the time.

But now I am with WinME since year 2001  (It was "included" with the new pc
package I wanted at the time.)  I struggled with the notion to try Warp4 on it,
but I didn't want to risk the perfectly fine usb and cd-rw functionality that
WinME provided immediately.

I still want to port over some files from my old OS/2 2.1 system to another pc
for safe storage.  I had trouble doing that with a parallel to parallel
connection a few years ago.. but NOW having investigated my friend's
usb-to-parallel senario, I think the LTP1=EPP Only setting is what I need to
adjust on my old OS/2 2.1 system too.

Speaking of not throwing out old equipment..  I have a couple of Colorado
250meg tape drives (two internal, and one external scsi model)  and several
blank/unused/wrapped 250meg  and extended XL (400meg) tapes.  I really don't
know where they would find a useful life.   :(   To the dump they will have to
go.


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Hi Roy (of 1:270/615),
On Tue, 18 Jan 05 at 20:06 o'clock, you wrote me:

 AA>> It seems a shame to have to throw out the old one.  There
 AA>> wouldn't be much interest for an older parallel port scanner on 
 AA>> other systems.  People seem to be "upgrading" to XP just 
 AA>> because MS encourages them to do so.  :( 

 RJT> Then again,  some of us don't run m$ crap and find such old hardware
 RJT> quite usable...   :-)

 RJT> Don't "throw it out"!




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