[Leica] New Digital Scanner Option - NT OS

["Cochran, Adam" <Adam.Cochran@caltech.edu>]

I have a Nikon 4000 ED scanner and initially had problems getting it to talk
to my computers.  One is a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 98 and the other a
Dell Dimension desktop running NT.  I was told by several people (Nikon and
our own ITS staff) that NT will not support USB or Firewire.  As the Vaio, I
upgraded to Windows 2000 for the scanner, and it has a Firewire port.
However, after speaking with Nikon techies about segmented images (Nikon was
quite helpful, by the way) I found out that the Sony Firewire port is not
OHCI compliant, which is necessary for the 4000.  At the suggestion of
Nikon, I ordered an OrangeMicro OrangeLink Firewire PCMCIA card (which is
OHCI compliant) and the scanner works perfectly.

Adam