FWIW, I have "hoarded" three HP 6300C scanners that came past me some
years back, because they had ADFs and all the accessories with them,
but after I got a "nice" new one myself, I was about to ditch them and
realized that they have absolutely excellent depth of field. One PCB I
scanned had huge capacitors and 1" tall extruding levers from sliding
pots, like a mixing board. I can still read the part numbers on most
of the SMT and even see traces.

The cards that are posted on the gallery on http://16sector.com are
done with this scanner, too.

The only real issue I have with the scanning is it seems like the
inside of the glass on the scanner is always getting cloudy and I am
having to take the top off and clean it on the under side about once a
month. It just sits there. Thats why you see in a lot of scanned
images, it looks "dusty".

But compared to the images on apple2.org from 1995, which absolutely
suck, even a little bit if pseudo dust is way more than acceptable.

The large scanned PCB is here, the 9.9MB PDF:
The others are images from an iPhone, in a poorly lit room, of the
chassis that the PCB is installed in.

http://17500mph.com/SimHawk/

Also, are some pictures of the scanner, the 6300 with the ADF
attachement and the 6200 without.

The 6300 has PowerPC Mac software, the 6200 does not have any Mac
software.

Vuescan works with both of them, however. They are the same optics but
different firmware, and the 6200 does not have the inbuilt functions
that the 6300 has that interact with software. I just use them with
Vuescan, which in and of itself is a pretty power application, it just
has an interface that leaves a bit to be desired.

These scanners are amazingly common, at least I have found. Over the
years I have seen 20-30 of them come past me, I've latched onto about
5 just so I have a supply of light bulbs if one should ever quit. They
plug in via USB and simple two pin AC line cord. No silly bricks to
get lost, overheat, etc. They are quite heavy and built to last as
opposed to those plastic wonders that you can mail on a first class
stamp and in some cases the glass on them is even too thick for the
optics.

The other thing I got recently was a Brother MFC-9840CDW. It's an
incredible duplexing ADF scanner. Horrendously fast, 400 page manual
in about an hour, and Acrobat 8 and 9 do an amazing job of de-skew and
OCR for searchable text.

I'd still like to renew all the images on http://apple2.org with
newer, perhaps scanned, images and a dynamic front end. Perhaps it may
be Gallery3..  Flickr is kind of interesting, but I really want it
within my own domain.
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