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From: foust@gumby.UUCP
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Subject: Bar code readers...
Message-ID: <412@gumby.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 18:13:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 18:13:42 1985
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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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?


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