Le mercredi, 7 mai 2003, à 06:14 Europe/Paris, AMSEA Computer/Web Tech a écrit :
Anyone here using a barcode scanner with a fairly new Macintosh computer, i.e., one that was made after they dropped the ADB ports and went to USB for all their peripherals? And you're using OS 9 and/or OS X?
We use both USB and ADB (with iMate USB adapters) barcode scanners with OS 9 and X, and we don't even need a special driver. The only problem we noticed was that ADB barcode scanners that worked directly on the ADB port of a blue-white G3 under Mac OS 9 refused to work (even with an ADB/USB adaptor, which works with all other USB Macs) after the Mac was updated to Mac OS X. For this one, we had to buy an USB scanner.
The guy at Custom Sensors (http://csensors.com) just said their scanners aren't (yet) compatible with newer Macs, and he doesn't know when the manufacturer might have updated software. They have some ADB type scanners that are supposedly Mac compatible, anyone happen to be using one of those on a newer Mac with an ADB-to-USB adapter? I have no idea if that would even work.
The best thing would be to try those scanners. I have seen many products that worked with Macs but their manufacturers/distributors had not bothered to try them on Macs and they just assumed they were not compatible. Thierry D --- Thierry Delettre Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris email : thierry.delettre@ensmp.fr