Datasheets for obsolete Toshiba part

"Winfield Hill" <hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu message ...

Win, I emailed you but it may well have ebitorated as you have such a
well-munged address.

Are these datasheets files or paper?

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Thanks for the kind offer Rich, but I'm in the UK and have an old scanner
with a dead PSU and LPT interface, so that is for the chop if I want to play
with its innards.

I expect I'd need a lot of time with a scope, which I don't have.
An EE without scope is like a guy without a...
but I digress. Manage without for ages, looks like I need to find one good
enough and cheap enough. Sadly these criteria are hard to overlap.

I have an "IBM ADF Color Scanner" with an ISA card for an interface, which
makes it useless, even though it was working last time I had an ISA comp.

Here's some snaps:
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It's sheet-feed, if that's not clear from the pix.

It was about $75.00 about ten years ago; it's in Whittier, CA, USA, so if
you're not withing driving distance I'd have to ship it, which I'd want
you to pay for, and maybe a few bucks for my time.

Let me know - you could email me at , except that
that's a spam dump; but I have a real email at the same server: simply
elide 'ard'.

Cheers!
Rich

"Winfield Hill" <hill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu message ...

While we are talking CCD sensors, any recommendations for ones that are
readily and reliably available at affordable prices?

I just want a linear sensor to scan paper whizzing past.

Doesn't have to be very high resolution, 1K seems fine.

I just don't want to design something in and have to redesign it due to a
sensor going obsolete/unobtainable every few months. Wishful thinking?

Having looked at some data sheets, there seems a great deal of similarity
(clock in, analogue pixels out) so maybe it isn't a big deal.

Pulling a CCD out of an old flatbed scanner
may be cheaper and quicker than getting new samples,
but means hunting for a data sheet. (Bad Toshiba again?).

I wonder if a PC scanner might have more pixels than I want, but then again
I can always merge adjacent pixels together to lower the resolution.

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) ccd interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.

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Thanks,
- Win