Apple Scanner
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The Apple Scanner was a flatbed image scanner released by Apple Computer in August 1988.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSBVAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA16-PA9 |title=MicroDigest: MacWorld Expo Summer '88 |date=19 September 1988 |magazine=U-M Computing News |volume=3 |number=16 |page=9 |quote=New from Apple: the Apple Scanner |access-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016042512/https://books.google.com/books?id=WSBVAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA16-PA9 |url-status=live }} It was Apple's first scanner, capable scanning A4 (8.5 in × 14.0 in) paper at a bit depth of 4 bits (16 levels of grey) at a maximum resolution of 300 dpi.{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73 |title=68030 Mac, Scanner to highlight Macworld |first1=Laurie |last1=Flynn |first2=Peggy |last2=Watt |date=1 August 1988 |pages=1,73 |volume=10 |issue=31 |access-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016042504/https://books.google.com/books?id=dDoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73 |url-status=live }}
Overview
The scanner could complete a full scan in 20.4 seconds.{{cn|date=January 2017}} It shipped with a SCSI connection with an unused serial port.
To control the scanner, it came with both AppleScan and HyperScan, the latter allowed users to scan directly from within HyperCard.{{cite magazine | magazine = Macworld | url = https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8811_November_1988/page/n72/mode/1up | date = November 1988 | title = Apple Connects with New Scanner | page = 69 | first = Ann | last = Garrison | volume = 5 | issue = 11 }}{{Cite web |date=2024-07-28 |title=Digitizing Paper Documents with Desktop Scanners |url=https://scanner.biz/paper-to-digital/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |language=en-US}} Later, only AppleScan was offered.{{cite magazine | magazine=Macworld |url=https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9110_October_1991/page/n155/mode/1up |title=Scanners in View |date=October 1991 |pages=146–153 |volume=8 |issue=10 |first=Steve |last=Roth}}
Many internal components are branded "Toshiba" and "TEC",{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorhH7IlUcc |title=Apple Scanner Teardown |date=2015-04-14 |last=Peter Brockie |access-date=2024-10-24 |via=YouTube}} suggesting that the OEM of the Apple Scanner was Toshiba TEC.
The scanner was upgraded to the short-lived Apple OneScanner in 1991 with 256 levels of grey.{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9112_December_1991/page/n110/mode/1up |magazine=Macworld |title=OneScanner we Can Afford |first=Jim |last=Heid |date=December 1991 |volume=8 |issue=12 |page=109}}
See also
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