{"id":377,"date":"2007-10-15T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/377"},"modified":"2007-10-15T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:34:31","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-retro-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/377\/retro-scan-of-the-week-retro-scanner","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Sharp Retro Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"white_caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_scanner_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sharp_scanner_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sharp JX-450 Color Scanner\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Retro <em>Scanner<\/em> of the Week?  For only $9,639.64 (in today&#8217;s dollars), you could buy a Sharp flatbed scanner in 1989 that could digitize images in 260,000 colors at up to 300 DPI.  Why 260,000?  I have no idea, but <em>any<\/em> color support at all made this this one heck of a high quality scanner for the time.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, most 11&#215;17&#8243; scanners still cost an arm and a leg; users have always paid a premium for that much glass real estate.  But current models offer much higher resolutions and color depths in a far-sleeker form factor than this one.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From CDA Computer Sales Fall\/Winter 1989 Catalog ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retro Scanner of the Week? For only $9,639.64 (in today&#8217;s dollars), you could buy a Sharp flatbed scanner in 1989 that could digitize images in 260,000 colors at up to 300 DPI. Why 260,000? I have no idea, but any color support at all made this this one heck of a high quality scanner for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}