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Jon Wilcox wrotw
>Yeah, Jaz Drives... good thought. Why digitise when you can store an
>image. No problems with corruption or integrity of the data either. What
>you see is what you get. The amazing thing at present is the whole
>rationale for hardware planning at present changes every 6 months or so.
>Quick scan, quick store, integrated with the patient file. We could even
>feed our desktop scanners with letters at lunch-time while we
>insert sandwiches in our mouths - now hang on shouldn't that be insert
>the letters and feed our mouths..
>PS: What's a rule of thumb A4 image size at average monochrome
>compression? In other words how many letters to a Jaz giga-cartridge?
>Food for thought.
>
Saving letters as graphic files takes up a lot of space and besides you
need a proper network running inorder to be able to view them on another
PC as dumb terminals will not do. Where as an A4 letter that has been
scanned and OCR'd will only take up 2-4k as ASCII text so between 300-
500 letters on a 3.5 inch floppy let alone the Jaz.
Incidently the New Syjet by Syquest will use a 1.3Gb cartridges and
there is ofcourse the cheaper EZ or Zip drives
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Manpreet Pujara
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