Re: [photo-3d] Scanning slides

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:56 PM 6/22/2000, Dan Shelley wrote:

> >2) How can I justify ditching my perfectly good working UMAX scanner to get
> >one of these babies?
>
>I too had (have) a GREAT UMAX scanner with a SCSI card to connect it to my
>PC. Works great on my old P133, but my one year old P500 can;t deal with the
>SCSI card, and a new replacement that will function cost more than the new
>scanner so it was easy for me. ON top of the cost issues, I now can do these
>great slide scans! =)

I had the same problem when I moved my scanner from a P266/Win95 to a 
P500/NT machine.  Unfortunately, I went out and bought the SCSI card.

BTW, which UMAX scanner did you have?  Mine's an S-6E ... cost me about 
$300, but the equivalent could be had for much less than $100 now, I'm sure.

-pd


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