[MelodyL]

Wow, is this a cool birthday present or what? And yes, today I am 62 years young.

Yesterday I was walking around the corner and everyone had thrown out their stuff for the sanitation guys. On top of some stuff was this perfectly lovely Microtek 4800 scanner. I used to have a scanner years ago but it is now not compatible with Windows XP, and yeah, I know Vista has come and gone, and now we have Windows 7 but I'm still going strong with my XP.

So I grabbed the scanner (thankfully it still had the power adaptor connected). I found a usb 1 cable in my drawer. BUT THERE WAS NO MANUAL AND NO CD ROM.

So I went online, downloaded all the manuals and saved it to my hard drive. I learned how to use it BEFORE hooking it up.

I then connected all the peripherals (I did this 30 minutes ago, by the way). This thing has bells and whistles and I'm saying to myself "why would someone throw this out"? then I got it.

He probably bought an ALL IN ONE PRINTER, FAX SCANNER THING.

So I now have a brand new Microtek 4800 scanner and it WORKS!!!

I printed out a test page. I'll probably never use all the features but

WHO CARES!! I GOT A FREE SCANNER.

lol

Melody

[TwoKidsTwoCats]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Melody!! Today is my nephew's 7th birthday.

I'm always amazed at what people throw out for trash, especially working computer components! We always take things like that to a charity thrift store. Cool you found it and it works!

[supermoo]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY.[BCool find hope you had a good day. xxxxxxx[/B]

[Koala77]

Check out the Social Forum Mel: **sorry wrong link - see post # 7 **

[MelodyL]

Originally Posted by Koala77

Check out the Social Forum Mel: http://photobucket.com/guestlogin?al...l168/jmalsc88/

Hi.

I have a photobucket account, but when I clicked on the link, it asked for a password, so I gave my own, but it gave me an error.

How do I view this album, and thanks.

Melody

[Twinkletoes]

Well, hey, Happy birthday to you, Melody! What a cool present someone set out for you! Glad you got it to work!

[Koala77]

Originally Posted by MelodyL

....I have a photobucket account, but when I clicked on the link, it asked for a password, so I gave my own, but it gave me an error.

How do I view this album, and thanks.

Melody

I'm sorry Melody.... I gave you the wrong link.

I was trying to give you a link to your birthday greetings in the Social Forum, but gave a link to the animated greeting in Photobucket that I used instead.

My error, not your's. My apologies.

Try this one: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread107311.html