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From: zap@hal.COM (Ford Prefect)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner software/drivers for NetBSD 1.0
Date: 9 Dec 1994 10:49:50 -0800
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
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Message-ID: <3ca8se$3qs@richthofen.hal.COM>
References: <3c2kpm$m2b@richthofen.hal.com>
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In article <3c2kpm$m2b@richthofen.hal.com>, Ford Prefect <zap@hal.COM> wrote:
>Is there any NetBSD scanner software (applications and device drivers)
>out there?  Im interested in hooking up a SCSI flatbed scanner 
>to my 1.0 box.. any help would be appreciated.
>
>If you need a beta-test site, let me know.  =)
>
>
>-Ford					zap@ucscb.ucsc.edu zap@hal.com
>http://www.armory.com/~zap/		zap@armory.com webmaster@armory.com
>

I got this as a response to my question and was asked to post it:

>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 94 00:17:56 -0500
>From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>Message-Id: <9412090517.AA01415@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
>To: zap@hal.com (Ford Prefect)

>If I had a SCSI card with an external interface (or a method of safely
>extending the internal cable on my AHA1540A) I would run out and buy
>an HP ScanJet IIcx and port PINT to NetBSD.

>pint-0.4.tar.gz is on uniwa.uwa.edu.au (130.95.128.1) in /pub/pint.

>Any suggestions as where to buy a BT445S VLB SCSI card?

>ISA: pull over--I want to get off this bus.

>K/
>/S

>P.S. the GSFC newserver is out of space, could you post this for me?