Overview Scanner

[Stewart]

I just saw some brochure for the AT&T Overview Scanner.  This
device appears to be a palette with lights on two sides and an
overhead image scanner.  It digitizes printed material and transmits
the digitized bit map to a 6300/MSDOS-compatible computer for printing,
storing, or later modification via paint programs.  NOW, my question
is, since I had heard that a similar device had been planned and
some prototypes built for the UNIX-PC, does anyone have any information
about this?  Were there plans or schematics or software?  I have
the Image Director that mentions the scanner board.  Is this device
perchance a 6300-ized version of that unit?  And could Paint Power
deal with modifications of the images produced by it?  What kind
of interface does that thing have, and could it be modified to work
on the 3B1?  Finally, and more generally, do most paint programs store
bit maps about the same way?  (Larry M., you listening?)

				- Mark

				G. Mark Stewart
				ATT_BTL, Naperville, Ill. ix1g266
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