Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Jim, Take a look at http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html for a Scanner driver that may work for your old scanner under XP. http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported shows the list of 400 of them. It is excellent software, at least the OSX version that I have used with several Firewire and SCSI flatbeds. It may be cheaper than a replacement scanner, the Standard Edition costs US$49.95 and the Professional Edition costs US$89.85. >Daniel, >I didn't get hit by lightning, but did have power supply go bad, and >it is a Dell-specific power supply in a seven year old Pentium II. >My new computer runs Windows XP and I was in for some surprises. >First, my old scanner and printer do not support Windows XP, so >those will have to be replaced. Second, XP does not support the >msbackup program that I have been using, so my backup files on my >external hard drive were not accessible. I did get the old machine >booted up long enough to copy my essential data and photo files to >the USB hard drive, which I then connected to the new machine and >copied the files. To top it off, the new version of Excel will not >run the old Macros in my financial spreadsheets. I'm about half way >converted after 2 1/2 days of work. Good Luck! >Jim Nichols > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Steve Keirstead Research Assistant II, Biology Teaching Labs, Harvard Science Center, Room 409, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Ma 02138. Work Phone: (617) 495-2683 , FAX: (617) 496-9105