We've got a Umax PowerLook 2100 XL here at work Which I like to use.
It's pretty honkin' big and it's also slow, but it can scan at up to 9600 dpi x 9600 dpi which is very cool. That's not as high as the Howtek drum scanner we used to have around the place, but the poor old Howtek bit the dust a year or two ago after having sat unconnected and unused for at least a year previous.
The Howtek was fun because it had mechanical parts rotating at thousands of RPM, but the Umax is even more fun because it sings to me when I use it.
It doesn't really sing I guess, but it does invariably produce a sequence of audible tones which probably irritate most folks, but which I have chosen to classify as musical. I have no idea just exactly how it produces the sounds, but as the motion of the light source/sensor assembly begins the scanner produces a sequence of rising tones that conclude with a constant hum as the assembly completes the scan. When it parks, the sequence of tones is reversed.
Like I said, it's not exactly the Boston Symphony, but I think it sounds nice.
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