Anyone have a 50 pin SCSI to USB 2.0/Firewire cable at all?

[LeeDevelopment]

I'm contemplating putting the scanner back up on the 'bay already as well!

I have a Windows 7 Laptop as well....any good?

 

[stewlewis]

Only with one of these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adaptec-S...ther_Computing_Networking&hash=item43b0a78e3d

But then most modern laptops don't have a PCMCIA card slot.
Then there's the software issue, although Windows would be easier to workaround than a mac. Or there's the USB>SCSI adapter again on the Windows PC, with some software hackery.......

You're probably entering a world of pain.

 

[JohnH]

It's not gonna happen to an iMAC, even with a USB > SCSI adapter I think you'll run into software probs.

Flog the scanner and buy another USB or Firewire one, or pickup an old tower mac with SCSI and use it as a scanning/archiving machine.

^This. 13 or 14 years ago, getting those SCSI-to-USB/FireWire cables to successfully connect bits of kit together was a hit-and-miss business even when people were using the operating systems that the cables were designed to work with -- Windows 98 or Mac OS9.

Trying to find a software driver that will convince a 2012 Mac running OS 10.7 to talk thru a USB port to a 15-year-old SCSI scanner... well... hmmmm.

I think Stew is correct. Secondhand G4 tower Macs or Win98/WinXP PCs are as cheap as chips these days, as are Adaptec SCSI cards. Or even an old Windows/Powerbook laptop with a SCSI PCMCIA card. My 1999 vintage Tosh laptop (with 2 CardBus slots) cost me £30. It'll be a hell of a lot easier to set up one of those to work with your scanner than a modern iMac.