Indeed, the first consumer digital camera, the Sony Mavica was only 3 years old and wrote still frames to tape, and it would still be 2 years before a digital still video camera would make it to the US market, and you'd have to shuffle the images around on a Still Video Floppy, as USB (and 1.0 at that) wouldn't appear for another 12 years, and even the first serial port webcam would be 10 years.

there existed drum scanners, flatbed scanners, and I think even hand scanners that you could drag over a bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scanner#Hand_document_sc... but maybe you'd have to check computer shopper from 01984 to be sure