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Core memory unlocked. Somewhere deep in the bellows of my electronics pile, I have an ancient HP barcode reader box that plugged inline with an AT keyboard. Int
by xattt 4y ago
Core memory unlocked. Somewhere deep in the bellows of my electronics pile, I have an ancient HP barcode reader box that plugged inline with an AT keyboard. Into this box plugged a reader pen that you dragged across a barcode.
Once read, it would send the barcode number as keyboard commands. It was a very tactile experience.
- yellowapple 4y agoMeanwhile, USB barcode scanners nowadays work by basically being a keyboard, so I guess we've come full circle.
- xattt 4y agoI think keyboard emulation was always the way most barcode readers operated.