From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 23 8:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658A214EDA; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id RAA07851; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:41:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:41:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com, usb-bsd@egroups.com Subject: Re: [usb-bsd] Re: USB scanners? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well I have access to a HP ScanJet at work, and USB modems are real cheap :) FreeBSD Inc. and 3Com give them away for free lately... > > IMHO its kinda pointless having USB mice/kbd since PS/2 does that pretty well, > but stuff like scanners and modems which eat serial/parallel ports are handy to > have as USB. > > Not that I actually OWN any USB HW (yet :) > > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > > > -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message