[Koha] Barcode scanners and Macs

[Thierry Delettre]

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
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Thierry Delettre
Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Mines de Paris
email : thierry.delettre at ensmp.fr