[Leaplist] Scanner Setup Help?

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 01:59:50 pm Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> > If this project is important to you, I'd recommend spending a hundred
> > bucks for a terrabyte disk, and use biiiiig resolutions like 300 or 600
> > dpi.
>
> And it seems like just yesterday I was reading this article on Slashdot:
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/19/1554216

A 1994 Egghead Software advertisement stated a sale price of $795.00 on a 1000 
Megabyte (1GB) Western Digital disk drive. Heart pounding, praying it wasn't 
a misprint, I called them up, and in my most casual voice asked if they had 
any of those eight hundred buck 1000 Megabyte hard disks in stock. They said 
they did.

Hopping in the car, I broke every speed law getting to Egghead. After a quick 
1 minute mantra meditation in the car, I walked in cool as a cucumber and 
asked for an eight hundred buck 1000 Megabyte WD drive. They handed it to me, 
I handed them my credit card, and prayed they wouldn't stop in the middle and 
say "Oh, we're sorry, it's really eightEEN hundred, not eight hundred."

But the transaction went through. Rather than continuing looking around in the 
store, as was my habit. I politely thanked them and strode briskly, but in 
control, out of the store. I didn't want to give them an opportunity to 
revoke the transaction. I carefully drove 2 blocks away where they couldn't 
hear me, got out of the car, gave a whoop of delight and did a victory dance.

Three years later I was buying drives 6 times bigger for 1/3 the price.

STeveT

Steve Litt
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http://www.recession-relief.US
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