I don't know a thing about this business, nor do I care to, but I do see a bit
of the ugly underbelly of the tech explosion. I am only interested in how this
could affect me if I were able to find a qualified Minolta film scanner
repairman. I have two s\of thesse little devils and all service went away with
the Sony purchase of konica minolta, reinforcing my opinion of sony ass a fine
producer of innovative products without readily available service. If I could
get them repaired, I could use one but the other is in question.
What I see here is something we all need to carefully consider. We are seeing
the fate of our most treasured images. What you seem to want to do is like if I
were placed in China and tried to communicate in English by screaming loudly. I
know, it's how americans do things, but will it ever work? Can a scsi
connection be adapted directly to usb with out intervening elecronic stuff to
translate?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Bloor" <admin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 6:10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] USB to SCSI scanner connection
Jan,
I am trying this route as I mentioned. However,
the ISA 50 pin card that came with the scanner
and was never used is a full height card and
won't fit in the desktop I have. The half height,
PCI card that I have installed has a 68 pin connection.
I only use that computer through a remote desktop
connection, so it would suit me very well to
dedicate that to scanning, if I can sort out the cabling.
Mike
>Have you considered simply getting an older
>computer that properly supports SCSI, and just
>considering it your “scanning station<
>'H[ÝHÚÝ[™@ able to network them and move images
>between them more easily than trying to get a kludge adapter working reliably.
>
>I have a last-century Mac permanently connected
>to my Roland Hi-Fi Jet printer for that very
>reason. The printer talks parallel port to an
>Appletalk dongle adapter. I wasted days with
>tech support trying to make this wonderful
>$16,000 (in 2003) printer useful directly from a
>modern computer. Went through a similar exercise
>with my Color Getter drum scanner, and
>ultimately dedicated an old computer to it.
>
>Jan
Mike Bloor
Seratel Ltd.
Computer Systems for
Electronics Manufacturers
Mulrany, Westport,
Co. Mayo, Ireland.
www.seratel.ie
www.ReelaMounts.com
Telephone: + 353 98 36244
Fax: + 353 98 36024
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