12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
4:23 a.m.
On 6/12/2006 at 12:10 AM Teo Zenios wrote:
For any real work I use an older Umax 1200s SCSI
scanner connected to my
Quadra 950 Mac, I would use it on my Athlon PC but the original driver
disks only cover Mac OS 8-9 and Win 9x. You have to pay $50 or so to get
drivers
for the scanner to work under Win2k (Silverfast) and I
am not paying $50
for old software drivers.
I used to use an old Artec SCSI flatbed scanner--it worked really well and
then just went belly up--the PCB was pure impermeability--lots of surface
mount ASICs with house numbers. I recognized some glue and an OTP 27C512,
but that was it. Ah, well--it was good, but not spectacular. I picked up
a used HP SCSI Scanjet with document feeder for about $25 on e-Pay. Works
great, drivers for Win2K and XP are still available for downloading.
I've even used the document feeder a couple of times; by and large it was
okay. But SCSI is defintely the way to go with scanners.
Cheers,
Chuck