ultimately, only a toy

I loved this scanner. It was among the first available, fitting into the compartment that usually housed the ink cartridge in my Imagewriter. When I would use my scanning software it would cover the image placed on the platen of the printer line by line and convert it into a digital image on my Mac. The quality was only as good as my printer would allow, which I suppose sort of made sense, but not particularly impressive images. Software for working with digitized images back then was also quite primitive so there was little reason to be disappointed with a tool such as this - it did just what it claimed to do. And it was great fun. In comparison to today's scanners, of course, it was only a toy, but I definitely enjoyed playing with it. I've parted with it as well, though considering how small it was, perhaps I should have kept it. It's a wonderful example of the ongoing march of technology, and of the obsolecense left in the trail of that march.