Datasheets for obsolete Toshiba part

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:

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 snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com, except that that's a spam dump; but I have a real email at the same server: simply elide 'ard'.

Cheers! Rich

Today I got an email from the Toshiba tech support saying the part for which I want a datasheet is obsolete and they don't have the sheet anymore. (Bad Toshiba, bad, bad, bad. In the kennel, no walkies for you tonight...)

The part is a TCD5381AP area ccd sensor, used in a webcam I take apart to build a specialised underwater camera.

Does anyone have, or know where I might find, a copy of this datasheet?

"Winfield Hill" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@drn.newsguy.com...

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.

anymore.

tonight...)

Hi Win,

while we are in the Toshiba datasheets, I'm looking for the TA7676 one that I can't locate anywhere.

Would you by chance have it somewhere?

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Thanks,
Fred.

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 one for everybody. Does anyone have a datasheet on the NEC MC-5800 hybrid RF module? It was used for IF and RF work. I have over

100 new parts and haven't been able to find a data sheet after a four year search.

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Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Or perhaps my spam filter ebitorated your email.

Files. I have 9 files of various Toshiba TCDxxxx ccd image sensors.

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 Thanks,
    - Win

anymore.

tonight...)

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

Are these datasheets files or paper?

By email? They're in my home computer, I'll send them later.

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 Thanks,
    - Win

cp. "to evaporate".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Oh goody.

Can I have copies of them _all_?

It's when bits "evaporate".

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.] On 21 Apr 2005 06:11:06 -0700, Winfield Hill wrote in Msg.

No entry found for ebitorate.

Did you mean arbitrate? Suggestions: arbitrate obturate butyrate iterate obliterate arbitrator Epitrite obdurate arbitrated arbitrates aliterate Odorate estruate EBITDA Oblatrate obturated obturates e-trade

so, what is "to ebitorate"?

--Daniel

"Daniel Haude" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@kir.physnet.uni-hamburg.de...

I guess this has something to do with emasculation.

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Thanks,
Fred.

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.] On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:44:37 -0300, jtaylor wrote in Msg.

You'll probably find them here:

The link came halfway down on the first page of a >toshiba ccd datasheet< Google search.

The Toshiba web page itself is a horror. Like all pages of companies that produce everything from electronic components to consumer stuff. Counterexamples? Siemens got better when they split off the Infineon semiconductor line, but that doesn't count. --D.

Thanks; I have been there already; no TCD5381AP (but iIdid get the pdf's of other Toshiba ccd's in case there is similarity)