Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal: You should point out that none of the scanners are ultra SCSI, so any old PCMCIA SCSI card should do. With Windows, at least, when you plug in the Adaptec card, the driver is already there. Regards, Robert At 10:24 AM 9/20/00 +0200, you wrote: >> can i go slightly off this topic and ask you about your opinion about film >> scanners? >> I intend on buying a film scanner but am restricted in the models that i >> can buy because i have a laptop - i need a USB film scanner - which tend >> to be the 'low-end' scanners.. >> one scanner i have seen lately has an optical resolution of 1800 dpi and >> is a USB scanner.. is this scanner a waste of time? should i buy myself >> a desktop computer so it can support a SCSI scanner? > >Hi Matt, > >you can very easily use a SCSI scanner with your laptop, Mac or PC. Just buy >a decent Ultra SCSI Cardbus card (PC Card) and you're set. >One of the very best cards for laptops is the one made by Ratoc, and it's >not expensive at all: > >http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/index.html#scsi > >I am using it on a Mac PowerBook G3 Pismo. Ultra SCSI allows for 20 Mbps >which is a lot faster than wat USB can offer in practice. > >Pascal >NO ARCHIVE > >