David Mann wrote: >On Jan 20, 2018, at 2:18 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > >> Also, all software & drivers... which unfortunately won't work with >> modern operating systems (at least in the Microsoft world - don't know >> about Mac). I've been using it with VueScan with great results. > >IIRC Minolta got out of the scanner business before Apple went to Intel. > >As it's USB you should be able to use it with an old OS in a virtual machine >on modern hardware. My experience with USB devices on Virtualbox is that it >was a bit fiddly to set up but it worked very well. > >Your other choices are Vuescan, or an old machine (PPC Mac or Windows). I had >to keep old hardware as my scanner is Firewire.
There's also the option of SilverFast for software, though I don't recommend it. The quality is excellent (my old Kodak RFS3600 scanner came with SilverFast) but it's pricier than VueScan and - get this - each version of SilverFast works with only one scanner: If/when you get a new scanner you have to purchase the software again! No thanks, SilverFast. To use a FireWire scanner on my up-to-date computer hardware I just bought an IEE1394 card and plugged it in. Good to go! -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
