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