Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

[emanuel stiebler]

Stan Barr wrote:
>>Hmm limit usable area to 8"x10" = 80 sq in.  600 dpi = 48mb per page. 
>>One way to strike a blow
>>against the paperless office.
> 
> I remember reading about a system like that, wrote data as a pattern of
> dots on a laser printer and read using a primitive scanner (it was a 
> while ago and definitely on-topic).  Developed by someone in Germany
> I think.  A query in various newsgroups a while back turned up no info.

A german computer magazine published the listings this way.
(I think it was the "mc"). You scanned the page in, and there was a 
software downloadable, which made same "meaningfull" files out of this.