steve30
Well-known member
I was wondering if anyone here had used 68k macs for working with photographs?
I was wondering this because I recently bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film scanner to scan my photos into the computer as I tend to use film these days, rather than digital. This model, whilst doing a very good job of scanning, is quite old (probably around 1997). I have successfully had it running on my PowerBook 1400 via SCSI and now on my PC with a PCI SCSI card, but it says in the manual that it will run on a Macintosh with a 68040.
As I don't have a 68040 Mac, I can not test this, so i thought I'd see if anyone else has used similar devices on 68k Macs. I'm guessing it would be OK to use if you had a good graphics card with lots of colours and high resolution. When I used it on my PowerBook, the colours and screen size meant it wasn't as good as on the PC, which has a nice 21" Trinitron.
Thanks
Steve
I was wondering this because I recently bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual film scanner to scan my photos into the computer as I tend to use film these days, rather than digital. This model, whilst doing a very good job of scanning, is quite old (probably around 1997). I have successfully had it running on my PowerBook 1400 via SCSI and now on my PC with a PCI SCSI card, but it says in the manual that it will run on a Macintosh with a 68040.
As I don't have a 68040 Mac, I can not test this, so i thought I'd see if anyone else has used similar devices on 68k Macs. I'm guessing it would be OK to use if you had a good graphics card with lots of colours and high resolution. When I used it on my PowerBook, the colours and screen size meant it wasn't as good as on the PC, which has a nice 21" Trinitron.
Thanks
Steve