Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: ScanJet and SCSI Message-ID: Date: 23 Nov 90 20:33:06 GMT References: <04a1s2w163w@bluemoon.uucp> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 19 johng@bluemoon.uucp (John Guest) writes: >The ScanJet (which I am about to purchase) sells for about 1100 bucks. It >then has an "interface adapter" that sells for another 4oo or so. Does >anyone know if the adapter is SCSI and do any of the standard SCSI boards >that I might buy serve to work this unit. As I will add SCSI anyway, I'd >like to have a little redundant equipment as possible. Does anyone know >what the "interface" is? If this is not a scsi unit, I apologize for the >erroneous post area. The interface is a synchnous parallel port (it goes in both directions instead of just one). It is not SCSI as far as I know (at least not on my HP Scanjet Plus). Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | Find the electric messiah! Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | The AC/DC God! Bitnet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.bitnet | - My Life with the Thrill Kill UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | Kult, "Kooler than Jesus"