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- OBJECT TYPE
- HANDHELD
- DATE
- 1990
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1999.0109.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Marstek
- MODEL
- MARS 800
- LOCATION
- Taiwan
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General Information
- Serial #
- MD902862
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- SYNTHETIC CASING, WINDOW, ROLLER, CORD, CIRCUIT BOARD (INTERFACE CARD), PARTS/ METAL MOUNT FOR INTERFACE CARD, WIRING, PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 16.0 cm
- Width
- 13.5 cm
- Height
- 3.7 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Marstek
- Country
- Taiwan
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- LATE 1980'S +
- Canada
-
COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE USED IN CANADA & ELSEWHERE IN WORLD. - Function
-
COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE USED TO CONVERT TEXT OR IMAGES TO DIGITAL FORMAT FOR USE BY PERSONAL COMPUTER. - Technical
-
HANDHELD SCANNERS SUCH AS THIS WERE USED FROM LATE 1980S BUT WERE SOMEWHAT LIMITED DUE TO PROBLEM OF ALIGNING TEXT FROM PARALLEL SCANS WHEN PAGE WAS TOO WIDE FOR SINGLE-PASS SCANNING. FLATBED SCANNERS WERE 3 OR 4 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE BUT WERE MUCH MORE RELIABLE FOR OCR SCANNING. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- LABEL ON SCANNER UNDERSIDE READS "Marstek/ HABD-SCANNER/ MODEL: MARS 800/ S/N: MD902862/ FCC ID: HWF90 HS800/ MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C."/ GOLD & WHITE LETTERING ON SCANNER WINDOW READS "Mars 800/ 800 dpi. 64 GRAY-SCALES/ 12 HALFTONE PATTERNS. INVERSE IMAGE"/ GOLD LETTERING ON INTERFACE CARS READS "MADE IN TAIWAN R.O.C./ GUTS/ GS IF REV B"/ BLACK LETTERING FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- BUFF CASING & CORD/ BLACK WINDOW & ROLLER/ GREEN CIRCUIT BOARD WITH PLATED MOUNT, METALLIC PARTS
- Decoration
- RED, GREEN & BLACK LOGO READING "MARS"
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Marstek, Scanner, circa 1990, Artifact no. 1999.0109, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1999.0109.001/
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