I used to have a big scanner that connected by SCSI
March 22, 2026 - 15:54 UTC
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Scanners were particularly brutal, very expensive for good quality ones so people wanted to keep them running for a long time but the connectivity and driver situation was brutal. I had one running for a while with a SCSI-USB adapter on a machine we had to designate as "no updates, scanning only."
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Honestly SCSI was surprisingly good, given the extreme limitations on hardware when it originated.
You could plug a disk drive, a scanner, another disk drive, and a network adapter all into one port. Which meant a SCSI port cost slightly more than a parallel, serial, or IDE port so didn't catch on.
You could plug a disk drive, a scanner, another disk drive, and a network adapter all into one port. Which meant a SCSI port cost slightly more than a parallel, serial, or IDE port so didn't catch on.
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it has been so long I don't even remember what this means, I just remember it being a very temperamental connection
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I had the misfortune in the ‘90s of trying to get a SCSI slide scanner and a SCSI flatbed scanner working together on a Gateway 2000 computer with a dogshit motherboard. I never quite managed it; whichever one you used first rendered the other unusable until you rebooted
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Yep, remember those. And an essential step when we were on a post production sound learning curve on the last movie Peter Jackson made before LOTR
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