HP ScanJet 4C (pc/isa) connect with USB????

[jackiev]

Have an OLD system (166mhz,96ram, NT) set up with an HP Scanjet 4c scanner connect using a SCSI card. Would like to replace the old system with a new W2K 1.8mhz 512ram, but do not have any ISA slots for the SCSI card.
I am in water way over my head here....
Have found a source for a cable with the correct SCSI connector for the scanner on one end & a USB connector on the other. Have also found a source for the W2K driver. Can I successfully connect without the card?

 

[tf1]

Maybe. Not much help I'm sorry to say, but if the cable you have seen is a USB to SCSI Adapter cable, the answer is maybe. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

If you are determined to keep your old scanner, then the best solution if to buy a new PCI SCSI adapter card. However, these don't come much cheaper than budget scanners - and nearly all these are USB.

Scanners have improved dramatically over the last couple of years and a budget USB scanner is probably at least as good as your HP ScanJet 4c and probably much faster.


Regards: tf1

 

[jackiev]

ok, thanks. I have been looking at the cost of cards & scanners. I am now polling the users to see if this scanner is really used as much as it used to be.

Thanks for the info.