Posted on 07/02/2015 10:16:33 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe
I threw out my scsi scanner from the 1990s a few years ago. USB scanners are cheap, fast, and the quality of the output is much better.
Or, put a wart on the box to hold the big card.
Or swap all the guts to a big box.
USB to SCSI adapter.
does this work for you?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DYBXN10/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1435857962&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&keywords=scsi+pci+card&dpPl=1&dpID=41WSu0VcxrL&ref=plSrch
Replace the scanner. I know what you’re gonna say. I sympathies. Just believe me when I tell you that it is not worth the grief of kludging together a solution to keep old hardware going unless it is some mission critical thing. A scanner isn’t.
Being something of a collector (alright then, pack rat), I just checked one of my bins and found an Adaptec AHA-2940.
If you can link me to a cheap USB scanner with a legal-size scan surface, I'll be happy to look at it.
Link? As I wrote in my post, all the ones I’ve found have been discontinued.
Also get off XP and onto windows 7 for the free upgrade to 10. Check if your CPU is 64bit, if so backup your XP and get a tech to install Windows 7 64bit. Then you can upgrade your memory beyond 3.2Gb.
I just did that and cloned my hard drive onto an SSD in 8 min. Now making DVDs is wonderful and my system flies!
No $$ for that. I'm in circumstances where I either (A) find a low-cost solution or (B) I keep the old PC running only for the scanner and then transferring files by flash drive.
I found a bunch on Amazon. Here is one for under $200 and if you get the refurbished one it is under $100.
I got an upright Canon duplex scanner for about $450 that is blazingly fast and does both sides at once. But I figure you want to get one for only a couple hundred.
Option B is cheaper.
As I wrote in my post, the new PC is Win 7 x64.
>>Canon MG 3220
Also as I wrote in my post, I require a legal-size scan surface. The printer/scanner you mentioned has a letter-size scan surface.
Yeah, I know. I fear that’s the solution I’ll end up with.
Do not have that kind of $$ in my present circumstances. See my response #11.
Have you considered an all in one printer? $250 for print, fax and scan.
http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/Multifunction_With_Legal_Size_Document/#.VZV5fflVhBc
Here is a duplex 8.5 x 14 scanner that is about $270.
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-ImageCenter-ADS-2000-Document-Scanner/dp/B007TN1J2O/ref=pd_sim_sbs_229_6?ie=UTF8&refRID=0S3TJEKSKC1QG2XKK2SY
I think you need to realize that flatbed scanners are being replaced by the upright models now. Much nicer and all automated. Throw the paper in the top and it spits out a collated pdf document on your computer.
See #11, #16. For me, right now, it’s either a low-cost solution or nothing.
And yet you are going to throw away good money on an antique scsi card? Crazy.
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