HOW TO PUT TOGETHER AN IMAGE DIGITIZATION SYSTEM IN 3 EASY STEPS
(by Christina Silcox, Research Asst.)
#1 Internal:  This is your base system.  You must have a MAC 840 or better
with 16 meg RAM and at least 230 mb of hard disk.  This is the bare
minimum.  If you have anything smaller you will crash! Add to this
internally a radius color board for millions of colors.  256 colors, which
is standard will not allow you to view an image in its true form.  You
will need to add a scratch disk of at least 1 gb, yes, that's 1 gigabyte.
This is where you will store and manipulate your images.
#2  External:  This is your monitor.  A 17 inch VGA is preferable.  5 or 6
double ended scsi cables for your peripherals, and a printer, your choice
depending on what you are going to be printing.
#3 Peripherals:  These are the extras you need in order to manage your system.
ADOBE PHOTO SHOPp software is an absolute must.  AXS software if you want
to add text to your slides including copyright info.  SYQUEST tape drive
to down load images and carry them to your computerlab to be down loaded
to a server for student viewing.  DAT tape drive.  This is 1gb of tape
storage for back up.  You can't read from a dat drive and you cannot write
to a dat drive.  But you can store to and restore from a dat tape and that
sure beats the you know what out of doing 100 floppies for a back up.  You
can use the SYQUEST for back up but it is only 44 mb.
SCANNERS: One Nikon slide single slide scanner costs about 1800.00.
Stackable scanner does 300 slides at a time and costs about 6500.00.  Buy
only Nikon or Kodak scanners.  The Mira 35 and off brand scanner will
break down in no time at all.  I broke a Mira 35 doing about 500 slides
this summer.
HP LASERJET flat bed scanner does books, photographs, magazines.
I also purchased a CD ROM drive for viewing images that we will buy from
Saskia.  You buy the copright with the CD.
Of course the hard part is getting the funding.  See,jsobre at this
address for the ins and outs of cash flow.