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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!andras
- From: andras@well.sf.ca.us (Andrew Raskin)
- Subject: Re: Microtek Scanner Hell
- Message-ID: <Bzw3t4.BGC@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:27:04 GMT
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- alburty@mindvox.phantom.com (Steve Albuerty) writes:
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- > I own a two-year-old, perfectly good Microtek 300ZS color/grayscale
- > scanner ... and a new Powerbook 140. And (you guessed it), the scanner
- > refuses to work with the Powerbook. (Or is it that the Powerbook
- > refuses to work with the scanner? Nevermind.)
- >
- > This is not a SCSI conflict problem. According to Microtek tech support,
- > the Powerbook does not send "power to the termination line." They
- > could not tell me how to get around this problem, other than to throw
- > out the Powerbook. He DID suggest I put a device somewhere in the
- > chain that DOES send power to the termination line, but could not tell
- > me what that device might be or who might make it.
- >
- > Anybody out there have any ideas? Anybody wanna buy a Powerbook?
- > (Only kidding about that last part.)
- >
- I'd like to! (Buy a powerbook :) )
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