[Simh] best way to scan 172 column fanfold 80s printout?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 2/11/2018 12:17 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 2/11/18 10:11 AM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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>> which is why I wondered what people thought of turning an old DEC teletype or printer into a scanner, by fixing a camera
>> to it
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> sounds like a bigger version of the Thunderscan
> https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Thunderscan.txt

I've still got one along with the ImageWriter II that I used it with.  The article was pretty much correct.  The Thunderscan could work really well or really not, It just depended on what you were scanning and how well the ImageWriter felt like working that day.

John H. Reinhardt