Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gumby.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!gumby!foust From: foust@gumby.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Bar code readers... Message-ID: <412@gumby.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 18:13:42 EDT Article-I.D.: gumby.412 Posted: Sun Jul 14 18:13:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:36:54 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 19 One good reason NOT to run down to your local Radio Shack and buy the bar code reader is that it costs $99.95, and you only get the bare minimum of software for the thing. Packages to print barcodes, and to read them in a more sophisticiated fashion, cost extra. What can be in the barcode reader wand itself beyond a phototransistor and a little shaping circuitry? For $99? On CompuServe, people have posted their efforts at disassembling the routines that come with the RS bar code reader. Has anyone built their own for the Model 100? -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> John Foust *** INSERT WITTY LINE HERE ***