NO! Stop! Do not do it!
The driver CD provided with the Cue Cat did a lot of nasty things to your
computer and obligated you to honor their software and licensing stuff. Do
not use it.
The Cue Cat itself is all you need, but you need to make a hardware change
inside the cat. In its original form, the bar code was encrypted and
combined with a serial number. The Cue Cat software used this to track your
web surfing habits. You need to disable the encryption and serial number
stuff so that you only get a plain-text bar code. There are several
hardware versions with slightly different changes. Do a Google search on
"Cue Cat" and look around.
I have several and they all work very well. The original was a keyboard
wedge and a later version was a USB.
Robert Reavis
Warm Springs Computer Works
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From: "Shawn Fessenden" <shawn@testech-ltd.com>
To: "VRF" <vrf@agilent.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: [vrf] RE: barcode.vee
>> I would also like to use an old 'cue cat',
>> but don't have the drivers - any help there?
>
> AMAZING! I found it. The entire original cd is zipped up & ready to
> download
> at ftp.oswegosw.com/pub/vrf_archive/Crq_v1_0.zip File size is 110M.
>
> However, I'm not real sure you need this. If I'm remembering correctly
> that
> this is a keyboard wedge then you should be able to just plug it in & go.
> It's been a long time since I had this thing plugged in, but I think the
> whole idea with the software was you scan something and it looks up the
> product on the internet. Try it without first.
> -SHAWN-
>
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The driver CD provided with the Cue Cat did a lot of nasty things to your
computer and obligated you to honor their software and licensing stuff. Do
not use it.
The Cue Cat itself is all you need, but you need to make a hardware change
inside the cat. In its original form, the bar code was encrypted and
combined with a serial number. The Cue Cat software used this to track your
web surfing habits. You need to disable the encryption and serial number
stuff so that you only get a plain-text bar code. There are several
hardware versions with slightly different changes. Do a Google search on
"Cue Cat" and look around.
I have several and they all work very well. The original was a keyboard
wedge and a later version was a USB.
Robert Reavis
Warm Springs Computer Works
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn Fessenden" <shawn@testech-ltd.com>
To: "VRF" <vrf@agilent.com>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: [vrf] RE: barcode.vee
>> I would also like to use an old 'cue cat',
>> but don't have the drivers - any help there?
>
> AMAZING! I found it. The entire original cd is zipped up & ready to
> download
> at ftp.oswegosw.com/pub/vrf_archive/Crq_v1_0.zip File size is 110M.
>
> However, I'm not real sure you need this. If I'm remembering correctly
> that
> this is a keyboard wedge then you should be able to just plug it in & go.
> It's been a long time since I had this thing plugged in, but I think the
> whole idea with the software was you scan something and it looks up the
> product on the internet. Try it without first.
> -SHAWN-
>
>
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> program examples utilizing barcodes?
Well no. But I can say that there are a couple different scenarios. Pretty
much any printer can come up with these things, but either you need a funky
font or else it gets kinda difficult. Sometimes you can get stuck in the
middle with a "half-and-half" proposition. Some printers can shift into
barcode or normal print (they basically have a bunch of different barcode
fonts on board) so all you have to do is send an escape sequence, a code for
the encoding you want to use and then alphanumerics.
> I would also like to use an old 'cue cat',
> but don't have the drivers - any help there?
Maybe. I have one of those things though it hasn't been out of the junk box
in a while
Scanning is a pretty simple proposition. There are your serial scanners and
keyboard wedges (they look and act like a keyboard). I'm sure there's all
kinds of USB & other stuff now. If I remember correctly, the cue cat was a
keyboard wedge.
-SHAWN-
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