[geeks] Scanner recommendations?

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com>
>Date: 2008/02/28 Thu AM 09:38:10 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Scanner recommendations?

>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:40:32 -0500, kevin at pipeline.com wrote:
>> I purchased an LiDE 60 last year and sold it within two weeks.
>> 
>> The picture quality wasn't bad and the speed was good, but it made this
>> horrible, tinny, cheap noise when scanning.  I suppose it shouldn't make
>> that much difference, but at the time i was doing the same as you,
>clearing
>> out tons of paper docs and the thought of sitting there for hours
>listening
>> to that sound was not well received.
>
>If all Geeks threw away equipment because of a noise it makes no one would
>ever own a large RAID array or boot up a real server in their house. ;-)

Whoa - he didn't "throw out" anything (as I read the above), he sold it off - there's a big difference, IMHO, between selling something and "pitching" it.

>Noise is a personal preference...

I have MP3s of various line and character printers on my iPod, always a suprise when they come up in shuffle ;^) Also very difficult to guess which printer it is when you play the audio guessing game on the iPod (the name eludes me - "guess"?)...

One of my favorite scenes in a movie was in "Hot Rock" w/Robert Reford and many character actors (including Zero Mostel), one of the characters, played by Ron Leibman had a record of race cars going around the track at some NASCAR event, and he played it at "11" on his craptacular stereo in the garage, just so he could hear it over the noise from the freeway next to his house...

Lionel