The 2+ has a 25-pin port on the interface card but you can get cables that go from whatever to 25-pin. Does t he scanner have 25-pin female on the back of it? I have seen cables that go from centronics to 25-pin no worries in fact I have one hear for my HP 3P. Regards, Kerry. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > I am glad to know DOS runs on your system, John - that meas there has got > to be a way for it run here, so I will pursue that angle. > > Steve - this flat bed scanner is a very old one which requires a > proprietary interface card. The card looks like a printer port, and the > connecting cable is a standard printer cable. So a PCI/SCSI card will > probably not help. I need a new scanner, and if I do that I will probably > just get on board with the Linux development efforts. But it will all have > to wait until after the holiday bills come in. > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waning Crescent (12% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au